On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 01:17:08PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > Well, in the mlgtk package i maintain, i have the Makefile gunzipping the > > needed file automatically, and make clean gziping them again. (i also have a > > make clean in the example dir during prerm, so dpkg will remove the correct > > files). > > > > I think something such as that is a good solution, since the files can still > > be installed gzipped, and only someone who wants to test them will unzip > > this, > > thus using less space in /usr ... > > No. We must not encourage users to work in /usr/... . I even think that > having those files "unuseable" is good for that, it makes users copy them > elsewhere.
Well, /usr/share/... is read only for the user anyway, so he will need to copy them over to /tmp or his work directory anytway. Once this is done he should only need to type make or ./configure. Or else the way of use the example should be written in some kind of how_to_use ... Friendly, Sven LUTHER
