[haiku-development] Re: /boot/common?

> "scott mc" <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What's the purpose of the new /boot/common directory?
> > I'm working on a port of a simple program called FIGlet which asks
> > for
> > a location to put it's font directory.  Would the common directory
> > be
> > the location for this?  such as /boot/common/FIGlet-fonts
>
> I've no idea what FIGlet will be, but the "common" directory is, as
> the
> name tries to imply, a directory that is common to all users. IOW
> there
> is a system directory where only Haiku's core stuff is, there is a
> common directory where apps and resources are for all users of the
> machine (read-only, also distribution related stuff would go there),
> and there is the "home" folder, that is only for you.
>

It's described in the bebook despite the fact that BeOS didn't have it:
http://www.beunited.org/bebook/The%20Storage%20Kit/misc.html#Directories
:)

François.

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