Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?
Eric> One drawback I see is that crafty-books-medium install a 30MB
Eric> opening book file, if we go copying it from /usr/lib to
Eric> /var/lib, we're wasting 30MB user's disk space, he might not
Eric> like it.
Sven> What about a symlink ?
How would that help? The whole point is to have 2 distinct data
files.
Since I actually use chess engines (I have used crafty but I switched
to the free phalanx), here's another issue with them that bothered me:
since debian is a multiuser system, multiple users can possibly run
chess program at the same time. What happens to the learning/book
file in that case? Are the programs smart enough to correctly handle
concurrent access? I strongly doubt it.
The implication might be that the best way is not to ship the dynamic
book files at all, and just assume they are in the user's home
directory or subdirectory thereof and document where to get them.
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