>>>>> On Fri, 3 Jul 1998 09:57:52 +0200 (CEST), Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said:
Jens> On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: >> Jens Ritter wrote: >> > I have a gtk+ based application. You can tweak it´s looks by >> > changing the xlogmaster.gtkrc file. The gimp puts its file in >> > /usr/share/gimp/gtkrc. But I think /etc is the right place to >> > put it in. Am I wrong? >> >> Personally I hate all these conf files flying around in /etc. And >> the gtkrc is not a REAL conf file. The app will run w/o it. As >> opposed to say inittab or something. So I say /usr/share is fine. >> Or leave it off completely. Flames welcome (-: Jens> I think I will leave it off, as the default gtkrc rather spoils Jens> the good looks. But where should the application look for it? I;d say /etc. The point of putting user changeable files in /etc/ or /var is to reduce the number of places that files will get modified. This means /usr (along with /usr/share) can be mounted read-only on the machine. Also it means that /usr doesn't have to be backed up if the user doesn't want to cause they will know nothing there has been modified. Jens> Another problem arises by the "extensive" use of Jens> /usr/share. The fsstnd says in Section 6.4: Jens> "One note: no program should ever reference anything in Jens> /usr/share. For instance, a manual page program should never Jens> directly look in /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1, but it should refer Jens> to /usr/man/man1/ls.1 at all times. Anything in /usr/share Jens> will be "pointed to" by the use of symlinks from other areas in Jens> the filesystem, such as /usr/man, /usr/lib/<something>, etc." Jens> I have >9000 files in /usr/share but only ~30 links to it on my Jens> system... (numbers by: find /usr/share | wc -l and Jens> find -type l -print0 |xargs -0 ls -l |grep /usr/share) Jens> Has there been a policy decision to not comply to the note? For slink (2.1) I believe we are still moving towards using the FHS rather than FSSTND. The FHS says it's OK and sometimes important to use /usr/share rather than some place in /usr/lib, etc. So I'd say having files in /usr/share is OK because it will comply with the new filesystem standard. Jens> And still, where shall I put the gtkrc file of my application Jens> (or the link to it)? And you might want to leave the program looking for the gtkrc file in /usr/share somewhere, but actually put the file in /etc, and provide a symlink. Dres -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @ http://www.dimensional.com/~dres | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
