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Re: Eclipse: /usr/share or /usr/lib?



On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:13:42AM +0200, Jan Schulz wrote:

> My current thinking is, that I will change the base directory from 
> /usr/lib/eclipse to /usr/share/eclipse, but will put all 'arch
> dependet' code (about 10 files from various places) directly into
> /usr/lib/eclipse and then set symlinks to the 'expected' places in
> /usr/share/eclipse subdirs.

That sounds fine.  It would be even better if eclipse would look in FHSish
locations for these things, but symlinks are OK.

> This will mean, that the 'starter' of eclipse (native, mostly sorts
> out parameter and then passes them on to java) is in
> /usr/lib/eclipse, but would be unusable (IMO), when used from there
> and not via the /usr/share/eclipse symlink.

Does this imply that the wrapper behaves differently depending on the
directory in which it resides?  Yuck.

-- 
 - mdz



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