On Saturday 16 August 2003 14:48, Edward Murrell wrote: > The 'Applications' folder is accessible from the users Control panel as > a special directory, allowing write access with sudo and the root > password. The folder itself would most likely sit in somewhere like > /usr/local/Applications/. Thus, our application 'Foo', would be in > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/. It's file structure would look something > like this: > > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/ > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/icon.svg > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/description.en.txt > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/tree/linux/i686/usr/bin/foo > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/tree/linux/i686/usr/lib/foo/libfoo.so > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/install/etc/foo/foo.conf > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/home/.foo/ > > To install, symlinks from are made from /usr/bin/foo and /usr/lib/foo/ > and /usr/local/Applications/Foo/tree/linux/i686/usr/lib/foo/ to > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/tree/linux/i686/usr/bin/foo, and to > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/tree/usr/lib/foo/. A copy of > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/install/etc/foo/foo.conf is made to /etc/, > so that changes made to the configuration do not affect the original > files of the program.
This sounds awfully like an extended version of stow. It'd be nice to see that. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
