[Gnumed-devel] Re: gnumed.conf

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> No. the gnumed.conf.example file is just that: an example.

... and thus it should reside where examples should go to

> /usr/share/doc/gnumed-client/gnumed.conf.example

/usr/share/doc/gnumed-client/examples/gnumed.conf.example

> but could arguably be in either of
>
> /etc/gnumed/gnumed.conf.example
>
> or
>
> /etc/skel/gnumed.conf
>
> I would think Andreas knows best here regarding Debian
> packages.

Well, there are always reasons for this or that desicion.  IMHO the
config file in /etc/gnumed/gnumed.conf should contain all options
but commented out and documented via comments.  Then we do not need
any extra example.

> > Andrea's Debian installer puts the client under /usr/bin/python2.3 so
> > I gather any users logged into such a machine would all access a
> > shared copy of the client
> Yes.

Sure.  gnumed-client is just another program on the machine as mozilla,
gimp or whatever.  There is no reason at all to have duplicates of the
code for every single user.

Kind regards

           Andreas.

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