On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Ted Zlatanov wrote: >> - I was not expecting the sample configs to go in /etc/X11/ion3. >> Maybe this is a Debian thing, but it's really strange IMO that >> there isn't even a link to them in /usr or /usr/local somewhere. > > Erm... /etc is the usual place for configuration files.
You mean "...in Debian." /usr/etc or /usr/local/etc is the usual place for software package configurations. /etc is used for system configuration files. This is pretty standard practice. I take no issue with Debian, I like and use it every day. It's a very good distribution. The paths in this case are weird, that's all. Maybe Ion should mention /etc/X11/ion3 in the docs as an example of an unusual location? >> - For laughs, I tried compiling Ion from source. It failed to >> find lua.h; > > Get the Debian ion3 source package (apt-get source ion3) and take a > look into debian/patches, especially 201_fix-paths.diff I aready saw and understood the problem, as I mentioned in my original e-mail. The source-code package is broken, because the configure script should try the Debian-specific options. Also, the configure script does not report a fatal error when lua.h is not found. This is not an issue with Debian packages, it's something Ion has to fix. Ted
