[2914] in Release_Engineering
Re: layering bites back...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Jaspan)
Thu Aug 13 11:08:56 1992
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 11:08:19 -0400
From: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: Chris VanHaren <vanharen@MIT.EDU>
Cc: rel-eng@MIT.EDU, jon@MIT.EDU, tjm@MIT.EDU, nschmidt@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: [2913]
You left out one option, that of installing a /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
on platforms for which we have vendor-supplied software that requires
it.
This might seem silly at first, but I think it makes sense. We
wouldn't hesitate to install all the configuration files a particular
vendor's app uses in the standard location; perhaps we would flame at
the vendor for making a poor choice, if appropriate. XKeysymDB, even
though Athena installs its own copy, is in this case just a config
file that the vendor app needs. So why should it be different?
IMHO, anyway.
Barry
