I hope we get past the deb installations soon and would encourage every developer to use the repositories and one-click methods so the users can more easily manage applications and more importantly updates. The New OS 2008 will backup your repositories and make it easier to restore applications on a flash. If they are not listed users will once again have to remember and hunt down what they were using. On 10/28/07, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote: > James Sparenberg wrote: > [me] > >> filetree: texmf > >> default-install-location: /usr/share > >> alternate-install-location: /usr/local/share > >> alternate-install-location: /mnt/* > >> alternate-install-location: /media/* > >> > >> (the * meaning "prompt user"). Purists will hate the idea of initiating > >> a dialog during an install, but for applications which have a very large > >> data footprint like TeX, I think it's justifiable. > > > > But allowing files all over the place violates the FHS. > > Sure...so do it with a soft link /media/whatever/texmf /usr/share/texmf > It's not important *how* it's done, merely to provide for its doing. > Otherwise it makes the package more hardware-dependent than it need be. > > ///Peter > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -- Jonathan Greene +1.914.750.8740 AIM / iChat - atmasphere gtalk / jabber - jonathangreene at gmail.com Skype / Gizmo - JonathanGreene blogs - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp / http://www.maemoapps.com
