[sugar] spreading activity bundle contents across the filesystem?

[Paul Fox]

bert wrote:
 > On Mar 13, 2008, at 8:55 , Jani Monoses wrote:
 > > For emulation of sugar on regular boxes is there a way of
 > > scattering an activity instead of installing it under a
 > > single directory?  The Debian policy for instance does not
 > > permit installing a .so under /usr/share and several
 > > activities come with prebuilt shared objects.
 > >
 > > I wonder if there's a simple enough change like an addition
 > > to a sugar-specific search path that would allow this with
 > > minimal disruption?
 > 
 > I don't think so, since activity authors are free to structure
 > the bundle any way they like.  I'd rather suggest installing
 > the bundles in, say, /usr/lib/sugar/activities.

i'd think that requirements for a particular distribution, if
they're not met by bert's suggestion, could usually be satisfied
with symlinks pointing in one direction or the other.  there are
certainly examples of this -- qmail packages come to mind.

paul
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