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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

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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