On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:05:22PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 06:47:00PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > BTW, I would like to take the oportunity to remind you that > > > auto-generated menu files should be moved to /var. > > > > Where in /var should they go? Unless I'm mistaken, Debian Policy > > doesn't prescribe a specific location, so I need to know more than just > > "/var". > > According to FHS 5.5 /var/lib you should use /var/lib/twm. > You can use a subdirectory of same, of course. > > 5.5 /var/lib : Variable state information > > /var/lib -- Variable state information > +-<editor> Editor backup files and state > +-misc Miscellaneous state data > +-xdm X display manager variable data > +-<pkgtool> Packaging support files > +-<package> State data for packages and subsystems > This hierarchy holds state information pertaining to an application or > the system. State information is data that programs modify while they > run, and that pertains to one specific host. Users should never need to > modify files in /var/lib to configure a package's operation. IIRC, for this to work, twm is going to have to be hacked to look there. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you have the slightest bit of Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual integrity you cannot branden@debian.org | support the government. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- anonymous
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