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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Proper handling of locally-installed software
Message-ID: <1990Jun7.171528.4968@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 7 Jun 90 17:15:28 GMT
Reply-To: dce@smsc.Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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One of my jobs is to snag all of the wonderful contributed and
posted software, and place it in our shared /usr/local/bin
directories.

Now that lots more people are writing Xt programs and supplying
app-defaults files, I want to be able to put these in
/usr/local/lib/app-defaults, which can be shared.  For now, this means
having every user set XUSERFILESEARCHPATH, which isn't always
acceptable (it's tough enough to get people to put /usr/local/bin in
their paths).

Is there a way to set up Xt so that it will look in both /usr/lib/X11
and /usr/local/lib without forcing each user to do something special?
Would it be acceptable to make this a standard part of Xt?

-- 
David Elliott
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