Redirecting to debian-policy. Followups to debian-policy only please. [You (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marcelo_E=2E_Magall=F3n?=)] >On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Adam P. Harris wrote: > >> [You (Karl M. Hegbloom)] >> > I've created a directory "/usr/X11R6/icons" for my own use. >> >> We already have the location, and it is standard: >> /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/ >> There are over 300 pixmaps in there, a good deal of which are icons. > >Is that policy? Gnome puts the pixmaps in /usr/share/pixmaps, and >according to my interpretation of FSSTD/FHS, gnome's practice is better.
Policy is vague; FSSTD is what hamm uses (not FHS!). It is de facto, if not policy, that icons are /usr/X11R6/include/ X11/pixmaps. I could see an argument that that dir should in fact be a symlink to /usr/share/pixmaps, but the latter does _not_ replace the former, since as FSSTD v1.2 says: | One note: no program should ever reference anything in /usr/share. For | instance, a manual page program should never directly look in | /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1, but it should refer to /usr/man/man1/ls.1 at | all times. Anything in /usr/share will be "pointed to" by the use of | symlinks from other areas in the filesystem, such as /usr/man, | /usr/lib/<something>, etc. Again, my advise is to go with the current flow, and we'll move all arch-indepenant data (which also includes man pages, etc) to /usr/share on the next cycle (post-hamm). .....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
