[Xastir] wish list

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:18:08AM -0600, Bruce Martin, KQ4TV wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, March 18, 2004, at 04:10 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Massimo Corinaldesi wrote:
> >
> >>Two requests for next releases:
> >>- have the config, maps,..., into the home directory instead of into
> >>/usr/local/share. This will be helpfull when upgrading the operating 
> >>system
> >>and recompiling Xastir;

<snip>

> I created  /home/APRS_Maps and  /home/FCC directories and simlink them 
> to /usr/local/xastir/maps and /usr/local/xastir/fcc respectively.
> 
> It makes it a lot easier to deal with OS upgrades and changes. It even 
> survives multiple xastir updates.

Another method which I have used is to put /usr/local on its own
partition (which I also do with /home).