Re: Simple HowTo

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I hope I am not off-topic, but one thing that sorta bothers
me is that many, if not *most* applications are being placed
in /usr/share as if a catchall place?  It seems to contain more
than 50% of /usr space alone?

It seems to me, that many applications such as 'games' for example,
ought to be in it's own common directory such as /usr/(local/)games
so that these (large) applications can be easily symlinked/mounted
elsewhere if need be, otherwise it can be bothersome to move, mount,
or symlink these otherwise potentially large applications?

I wonder what the point is of having /usr/games, /usr/local if
no one seems to use these otherwise mostly empty directories?

I seem to think it might be an added bonus giving the installer
the choice as to where to install their application(s)?

Just wondering.

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This might answer the /usr/share question:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.11.html

"Any program or package which contains or requires data that doesn't need to be modified should store that data in /usr/share (or /usr/local/share, if installed locally). It is recommended that a subdirectory be used in /usr/share for this purpose.

Game data stored in /usr/share/games must be purely static data. Any modifiable files, such as score files, game play logs, and so forth, should be placed in /var/games."

~af

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