Re: Hyper gammon

[Philippe Michel]

I'm sorry if I seemed critical or harsh. Although I'm not familiar witth 
Debian I should have searched further than I did (that is, the man 
page).

Regarding the files locations, I agree with the principles you give.
 
> However, the deeper problem is that files that are generated by the user
> shouldn't be put into /usr/share *or* /var/lib.  Both of those paths are
> intended to only be written to by privileged users.  The best place to
> load additional user-supplied bearoff databases and hypergammon databases
> would be using XDG paths in the user's home directory, and gnubg should
> ideally use a search path that looks in the user's home directory first,
> and then in /var/lib and /usr/share if the file cannot be found there.