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Hi,
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 19:26 -0800, Michael wrote:
> > *sigh* A coworker and I were discussing this, and where binaries and
> > other applications should be stored. We both agreed, each program
> > should have it's own directory. Has anyone seen where gnome puts all
> > it's libraries? UGH. I may like the gnome interface, but where they
> > put stuff drives me nuts.
>
> Personally I'd like something like /Packages that contains a subdir for
> each package the system knows about. I'd put in each subdir a control
> file for downloading, installing, configuring, upgrading, and
> uninstalling each package, a subdir for the source, and a subdir for the
> built version. Then just link the needed files into /Programs etc. You
> can get the best of both Windows and Unix methodology by doing it that way.
isn't LSB supposed to address these issues?
Gnome on my distro of choice (Ubuntu) is in /usr/lib/gnome-*. Any reason
why it should be anywhere else? :-)
Ognen
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Ognen Duzlevski
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