Problem with a package

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 07:33:43 -0300, Nikolai wrote:

> It looks like the CVS version use the FHS standard, putting the
> binaries on $(prefix)/bin and the data on $(prefix)/share/widelands. I
> will give the CVS a try, otherwise I'll put everything on the
> /usr/share/widelands and patch the desktop file.

Depends on what "everything" is. /usr/share is for platform-independent
network-sharable data. The binary executables cannot go into it.
 
> 2006/7/8, Ian Chapman <packages at amiga-hardware.xxx>:
> > Nikolai wrote:
> > > I'm packaging also the Widelands game; and I noticed it uses a weird
> > > filesystem structure, because it has no "make install" and the data files
> > > are on the subdirs on the same dir as the executable. How should I fix
> > > this?
> > > Put everything on /usr/bin or make a special folder for widelands on
> > > /usr/share and fix the .desktop file?
> >
> > I would make the dir /usr/share/widelands and patch the game if
> > necessary to use this location.
> >
> > --
> > Ian Chapman.