Re: [Xmame] Change directories

[Fabien Meghazi]

Hi.
Well, I just want to move it to my personal folder just so I have things
more controlled,
since compared to DOS, which I have used for long, in Linux things "install
themselves" where
they want to, and I am not used to it...
Do you think it is possible?

I see only two solutions :

1) get used to the linux file system architecture and forget your idea
to have your programs   stored like a DOS system (everyone will answer
this) You can also read information about the linux files structure,
you will then understand why a program have files spreaded in many
places in the linux file structure

2) perhaps using epkg would be what you want (not sure), it allows you
to put your self-built packages in one place, and epkg will make all
the symlinks in order to fake the installation of the files in the
file system structure.
http://www.encap.org/epkg/
This is what I use for my self compiled programs (only self compiled)
Anyway, you will see that you will spend a lot of time trying to get a
programs structure like dos and you will fallback to the first
solution which is what everyone will advice to you. If you want to do
this for every program on your linux box you will spent you time on it
for the rest of your life, and during all this time you will never
achieve the first level of metal slug !

FYI: /usr/share/xmame does not contains all files of xmame, eg: the
xmame executable is located elsewhere (depending of your linux
distribution if you installed xmame using your distribution's
packaging system)
By exemple, under debian, here are the files installed by the xmame-x package
/usr/games/xmame.x11
/usr/share/games/xmame/cab/glmame/glmame.cab
/usr/share/games/xmame/cab/glmame/cabfront.jpg
/usr/share/games/xmame/cab/glmame/cabtitle.jpg
/usr/share/games/xmame/cab/glmamejau/cabside.jpg
/usr/share/games/xmame/cab/glmamejau/glmamejau.cab
/usr/share/games/xmame/cab/glmamejau/cabfront.jpg
/usr/share/games/xmame/cab/glmamejau/cabtitle.jpg
/usr/share/games/xmame/cab/trans/trans.cab
/usr/share/doc/xmame-x
/usr/share/man/man6/xmame.x11.6.gz

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