I'm sorry if I seemed critical or harsh. Although I'm not familiar witth Debian I should have searched further than I did (that is, the man page).
Regarding the files locations, I agree with the principles you give. > However, the deeper problem is that files that are generated by the user > shouldn't be put into /usr/share *or* /var/lib. Both of those paths are > intended to only be written to by privileged users. The best place to > load additional user-supplied bearoff databases and hypergammon databases > would be using XDG paths in the user's home directory, and gnubg should > ideally use a search path that looks in the user's home directory first, > and then in /var/lib and /usr/share if the file cannot be found there.
