Debian first experience made a bit easier...

Nikita V. Youshchenko yoush at debian.org
Sun Sep 13 20:04:26 CEST 2009


> > > > For example, it's nice that mokomaze is in debian, but if you
> > > > install it and run it, you will get your screen blanked after a
> > > > minute. To avoid that, one needs to start mokomaze under fsoraw
> > > > wrapper. Making this happen automatically while staying within
> > > > debian policy could be a challenge: debian package is not for
> > > > freerunner only, modifying files installed by other packages (hi
> > > > hi appraw) is denied by policy, etc
> > >
> > >    Why would you need to? You can create another package, with a
> > > dependency on mokomaze and fsoraw, to install the necessary .desktop
> > > file.
> >
> > Why would I need what?
>
>    Why would you need to modify files installed by other packages? Just
> create a package with this as
> /usr/share/applications/mokomaze-noblank.desktop:

That will result in two icons in launchers.



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