slash dock, and so on. And so there's a couple of different... There's bin sbin lib include sysconf shared state, local state. So that's bin sbin lib include etc, var, and things like that. These are all system variables. So these can be changed by the user, and we'll get into that in a moment. But that's a really important principle, and that's kind of what I was talking about, that cascading effect of resolving errors. The data dir is set by the system default or by the user, and from that value, it can derive the correct location of the man pages, and of the info pages, and of the document, the dock pages, and so on. So that's super useful, and it's one of those things that very often gets overlooked when people are building their own build system. They just throw stuff into directories. And maybe they've variableized one thing, but they can't imagine that anyone would ever install something over there. So they just don't variableize that. They don't make that a variable. And so (39/54)
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