> Is that a good idea? Does dpkg care about /usr/local? All the previous installations are done in /usr/local, so I will not changes this as long as Scidb is a beta version. Later the alpha version will be installed in /usr. Yes, dpkg takes care about /usr/local.
> Does a "dpkg --purge scidb-beta" cleanly remove the package? Yes, this is tested. (In fact only the installed mime types will not be removed, because this may clash with other applications. Linux/UNIX does not provide a process which is avoiding such clashes. Other applications like XBoard do habe the same problem - fortunately this is only a minor problem.) > It's 56M in size! Does it not use shared libraries? It is using shared libraries. Currently Scidb will be compiled with debug information (it's a beta version!), the executables are really big (and a bit slow); also note that Scidb is using a lot of static libraries (HTML, SVG, ...) which are not available as shared libraries (or packages). Furthermore the package contains a lot of files (some are big) used by the application. Later the alpha version will be smaller (and faster; especially the load of databases, and all the export/import functions will be much faster). Cheers, Gregor
