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[shivaken <shivaken AT jcom.home.ne.jp>]

Hi.

On Monday 23 September 2002 07:54, Nick Jennings wrote:

> > > > 1. The directory to put  java's jar library
> > > >         $Java_base/lib/**.jar
> > > >         or
> > > >         $Java_base/$spell\'s_name/lib/**.jar
> > >
> > > /opt is a good place to put things with funky directories. Or perhaps
> > > something in /var?
> >
> > /var is good I think.
> > But, I have to research other distributions directory policies,
> > before deciding our ones.
>
> /var is definetely *not* what we should do. The rule has been thus far,
> for anything requiring it's out heirarchy (i.e. java/lib java/bin etc.)
> it all goes in /opt.  (i.e. /opt/java/lib etc.)

OK. /opt is good. 
But, we have more flexibility.
If we define balky directory policy, New user will confuse and shun.
Because, at rpm based distro, sun's j2sdk will be installed at /usr/java.
So, We should support environment variable $JAVA_BASE.
To determine Java packages prefix. like JAVA_BASE=/usr/java
And we can recommend /opt.

> > /etc/bashrc is a way for only bash user. (My shell is zsh...)
> > I want support tcsh and zsh.
> > At my machine, I wrote classpath at /etc/classpath. and
> > I set ". /etc/classpath" at /etc/zshrc.
>
> So then, maybe the spell could create a file to be sourced, and echo
> this info after the spell is cast.
>
> The only problem I could see with this, is if you are casting allot of
> stuff, you might miss the message.

Casting allot is includes many problem I think.
When casted allot. you are not notifed which spells are succeeded to install.

> Maybe we should have a: 'gaze notes <spell>'  for this kinda stuff? to get
> instructions, or reminders that are displayed after a spell is cast.

For correct configuration?
That sounds good.
Now, you should 'gaze website <spell>' to get information.
But spell writer must have many tips.