You can put whatever you like into an RPM package, including links. however,
most independent packagers (i.e. those not packaging for a distribution company)
don't bother doing this. Also, some distributions like Debian and Mandrake have
their own menu systems, which are incompatible with the default systems.

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:08:22 +0100, "Antonio Argentieri"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> As a complete newbie...
> Does anything automatically link itself into the menus?
> I've installed a number of things off the LM CD and never got links to
> them...
> 
> Is linking part of the RPM standard?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ed Kasky
> Sent: 14 September 2001 01:53
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't find StarOffice in KDE menu
> 
> 
> I even reported this little bug to Star and never heard anything back...
> 
> I just manually created the links.
> 
> Ed
> At 07:07 PM 9/13/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >I installed StarOffice.. and it tells me it is installed into the KDE menu.
> I
> >restarted my KDE. But it's still not in the KDE menu. How can I make it
> >appear?

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