Subject: Re: Packages (Re: xntpd)
To: Hubert Feyrer <Hubert.Feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: 51482) <etorwi@etn.ericsson.se (Raymond A. Wiker>
List: current-users
Date: 01/05/1996 08:15:35
Hubert Feyrer writes:
> I assume you understood that the users (and that's what we act for here :-),
> and with them their shells, don't have to include all those dir's
> bin-subdirectories into ther $PATH, but only some common bin-dir
> (/usr/local/bin), which contains only symlinks.
Just a quick comment here: Some applications
will not work with this scheme. XEmacs, for example, looks at argv[0]
and PATH and uses this information to locate the lisp libraries. So,
in this case at least, it would be necessary to have a small
shell-script wrapper instead of a symlink.
It would of course be possible to have a symlink to a wrapper
located in the package directory...
//Raymond.