Re: [GD-General] A portable preferences library

[Pablo <pe...@te...>]

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> Preference objects can be opened either system-wide (corresponding to
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE on Windows, "/Library" on OS X, "/usr/local/share"
> on Linux) or locally (corresponding to HKEY_CURRENT_USER on Windows,
> "~/Library" on OS X, and "~" on Linux).

	I wonder if /var/lib isn't a better place to store such a data, since many=
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people mount their /usr filesystems in read-only mode.
	A clear example for this can be seen in the Mozilla package for Debian. Th=
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original version of Mozilla stores everything in /usr/local/mozilla, while=
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the Debian package puts global configuration files in /var/lib/mozilla and=
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creates the appropiate symlinks so the application can find its files.

	Greetings.
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