Re: /usr/share?
On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 03:56:42PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> WindowMaker 0.15.0 has been released, and it contains a number of non
> FSSTND complaint locations.
>
> It uses GNU autconf's pkgdata dir idea. That's means it puts things
> in /usr/share/WindowMaker (in fact, I've seen quite a few packages
> doing this, which is, IMO, against policy)
I thought policy only said you couldn't put *files* in /usr/share,
eg /usr/share/WindowMaker.somefile or something, but could (and must)
make subdirectories like /usr/share/WindowMaker.
Anything that's a conffile or configuration file belongs in /etc though.
Hamish
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