[Q] Re: [21.5] Use .../share instead of .../lib for datadir

Michael Sperber sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Mon Aug 20 09:10:08 EDT 2007


Didier Verna <didier at xemacs.org> writes:

> Michael Sperber <sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>
>> Yes, the packages now go in share.  Is this what you wanted?
>
>   YES !!!! For some reason I seem to recall that I raised the issue
> several times in the past but some people disagreed because going from
> lib/ to share/ would have an impact on end users.
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1/ does the package system search for share/ and then lib/, or did you
>    just discard lib/ (that would be rude) ?

The latter.  (Yep ...)

> 2/ I install my packages from CVS.

How do you do that?

> Did you modify the infrastructure to install in share now ?

Probably not---I don't even know what infrastructure you're using :-)

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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