[bt-devel] 1.2.2 execute troubles

[Jason Gress]

I hate to toot my own horn, but my sword ebuild (attached earlier) does 
install to /usr/share/sword. ;)  That seems to be the default in most cases 
around here, though I can see the logic with /var/db, tradition does seem to 
put it in /usr.  However, I am certainly have no problem with change if there 
is a better way to do it.  I chose what I did because my philosophy has 
always been to change the source directories as little as possible - and it 
seems that Gentoo likes to stash stuff in /usr anyhow.  XMMS skins, tuxracer 
data, you name it - look in /usr/share on a Gentoo system to see what I mean 
- it seems most ebuilds but data there.

	Jason

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 03:30 pm, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 October 2002 06:13 am, mark lybarger wrote:
> > I'm getting closer. By setting SWORD_PATH=/var/db/sword (still don't see
> > why it's not getting the setting from /etc/sword.conf), and commenting
> > the below recursion call in bibletime.cpp, I can get bibletime to start
> > and function.
>
> Umm, if this is for a distribution's package, you might reconsider putting
> the SWORD modules in /usr/share/sword.  The modules are typically static
> data that can easily be shared amongst multiple machines via NFS, and are
> not variable data like /var/db would indicate.  Of course, I'm only
> familiar with Red Hat and LSB policy on that; gentoo may very well have a
> policy of static sharable data being in /var.