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Re: configuration file placement



On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 03:35:06PM -0500, Shaleh wrote:

> On 31-Jan-99 John Travers wrote:

> > The program I am packaging defaults to putting its configuration files in
> > /usr/share/packagename/... along with an example file and a pixmap. How can I

> You may have to edit the program's code.  This has been a problem for several
> packages.

With some programs you can get away with putting a symlink where the
program expects to find its files and leaving it at that.

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