hi, On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 09:08 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > It would make a lot of sense to have them in the same directory, so that > the sysadmin can dedicate a partition to this heavy data. We are > thinking about something like /usr/share/biodata for instance. In > the case the wrappers would directly install data and not generate > ad-hoc packages, maybe something in the /var hierachy would be more > appropriate. But there is no /var/share... Also I am a bit unsure if the > local sysadmin would be allowed to write in... > > Was there already a similar situation in Debian? What was the solution > chosen? typically /usr/share/foo is for read-only pre-packaged data, so i would say /var/lib/foo (or maybe /var/cache/foo) makes more sense. for admins who would prefer otherwise you could put the location in a config file i suppose? sean
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