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["Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

On 17:39:12 2007-06-23 David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org> wrote:
> Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote:
> > I've noticed in the current gnash spell that we don't actually
> > install the gnash plugin into some global dir where it would be
> > always available only into the browsers own plugin dir. I would
> > propose the following...
> >  
> > All ns-compatible-plugins would install the plugin into:
> > /usr/libexec/ns-compat-plugins/
> >  
> > And then only symlinks would be pulled from that to the browser
> > plugin dirs.
> 
> Much better would be to use /usr/share/$SPELL/ and then have the spell
> make the symlinks. No reason to create yet another directory, when
> usr/share exists and would be perfect for this. And it should be done at
> the spell level I think not the browser spell level.
share is for arch-independent data while a compiled .so certainly is not
such a thing.