[Xorg] getconfig.pl
Jakub Piotr Cłapa
loc at toya.net.pl
Mon Jul 5 07:48:03 PDT 2004
Egbert Eich wrote:
> Daniel Stone writes:
> > > It is certainly not a good idea to maintain such a list in the program
> > > itself. I assume it was just ment to be a temporary solution. Such a list
> > > can be kept in a separate data file, however xorg.conf doesn't seem to
> > > be the right place as it is used as a custom configuration file. Even
> > > with automatic configuration around one must be able to create such a
> > > custom file and that one would then most likely overwrite this data.
> > > Any other file in /etc/X11 would be fine, I think.
> >
> > This is what /usr/share is for - static data files.
>
> It depends how static these really are. /etc contains a lot of conf
> files with blacklist data and other things one could argue to be static
> also. This data file seems to be alnong that line.
/etc for configuration
/usr/share for static data (arch independent!)
/usr/lib for arch dependent static data
So /usr/share IMHO.
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Regards,
Jakub Piotr Cłapa
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