OpenCDE/opencde — comment on commit 17338d851abb3ce8e205add59af220bb6dd837ff
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By woomia:

I think Karsten hadn't really thought out cross platform stuff out. I had
to nudge him to get him to write enough so it would work on Debian.
Anything that makes OpenCDE portable is cool with me.

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:53 PM, arcfide <
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> Normally, I think installing into an etc based app-defaults directory is
> the right thing to do, because it suggests the editability of these files.
> We do have to be careful that our work doesn't overwrite the normal
> app-defaults files of any programs that might be named the same though.
> It's a little more complicated if we are going to assume that we are
> installing into a system directory, but being able to choose where the
> app-defaults files go separate from the rest of the shared code is
> probably a very good thing. If we do that, we need to make sure that
> scripts like dtsession and others that may be setting or controlling the
> resource directories are appropriately modified.
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