Upcoming X.org release and splitting packages

Jack Tanner ihok@hotmail.com
Thu Mar 18 17:45:00 GMT 2004


Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 5) Rename the "lib" package to something more meaningful.  The name 
> currently implies that it might contain link libraries or run-time 
> libraries, but it really contains files shared among X packages. Perhaps 
> "shared-files" would be a better name.  I would appreciate it if someone 
> would look into what Debian and/or Fedora call this package.

"Common" or "shared" are standard for Windows software. For example, 
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared, C:\Program Files\Common 
Files\Symantec Shared...

-JT



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