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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Spell's Data Files Location . . .
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:47:33 +0200

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:36:33AM +0200, Martin Svehla wrote:
> Andrew ruskie Levstik píše v Pá %{Day}. 16. 2004 v 09:10 +0200:
> > > I'm creating a spell for a program that prints a map of Middle Earth
> > > and then
> > > allows you to see specific areas by name. The spell is pretty much
> > > done,
> > > except for that one minorly annoying "feature": the program requires
> > > its data
> > > files to be in the current working directory. My problem is that I
> > > don't
> > > know what to do with the data files. Should I copy them to the ~
> > > directory
> > > or to /usr/share, or ...?
> >
> > Did you think about puting both data files and the executable into the
> > /usr/share dir and then making a script to launch it from there....
>
> If the executable isn't architecture independent, it should go
> into /usr/libexec

/usr/lib/$APPNAME actually, /usr/libexec isn't part of the filesystem
hierarchy standard.

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