Re: using garnome as default desktop

[Remi VANICAT <vanicat+gnome labri fr>]

Simon Wong <SJPWongBulk bigpond com> writes:

> On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 12:09, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>> You *CANNOT* move the directory without symlinking it back. Doing that would
>> be like moving /usr and expecting stuff to work.
>
> I never really thought that binaries wouldn't work if moved from their
> compiled "installed" location.
>
> Is this for any binary or only ones that need other binaries/libraries?
>
> I can't quite understand why this is?

Simply, lot of executable need other file (that may be other
executable, but also icon, documentation file, default
configuration...). So they need to know where to find them.
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Rémi Vanicat
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