[gobolinux-users] /Shared versus /~share

[Jonas Karlsson]

2007/2/28, pp_o2 <pp_o2 at o2.pl>:
> Hi,
>
> What's the difference between /Shared and /~share directories?
> Let's take Aspell example.
>
> We have:
> 1) /Program/Aspell/0.60.4/Shared
> 2) /Program/Aspell/0.60.4/~share (which leads to
> /System/Links/Shared)
>
> /Shared (1) is not the same as /Shared (2).
>
Something looks broken here. You should have one directory, 'Shared',
and a symlink, 'share' (without tilde), that point to
/System/Links/Shared.
Shared is for storing application specific shared data. This is then
symlinked into /System/Links/Shared by SymlinkProgram. Problems is
that applications look inside ther prefix for shared, namely after the
directory $prefix/share. Therefore this has to be a link to all the
collected data from all applications, which is /System/Links/Shared,
hence the link.

-- 
/Jonas