Am Dienstag, 18. November 2003, 16:27:37 Uhr MET, schrieb Marcel Pol:
> > apps can be arch dependent and since /usr could be shared by NFS, menu
> > entries should be in /usr/lib.. (well, it was Debian rationale for
> > menu location..)
> But the menufiles are arch-independent.

The menu files are arch-independant, but the application in the menu
entry can be architecture-dependant. Imagine a menu entry for vmware,
that wouldn't make sense on the Linux/PPC machine.

> I assume it will be fixed when we switch to the freedesktop menufiles
> proposal. It doesn't list the place for these files however, but it seems a
> lot like the kde/gnome desktop files that are in /usr/share/app*.
So the architecture-dependance of the menu files will be lost?
 
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