23 Feb
2012
23 Feb
'12
10:40 p.m.
On 02/23/2012 10:23 AM, Darrell Anderson wrote:
/usr/local is for the user. What
users want to do with their /usr/local is for them to decide.
Upstream maintainers are not supposed to install anything in /usr/local. When software is
provided by upstream providers as part of a distribution's package system, then
/usr/local is supposed to be off limits. Installing to /usr is preferred, but the
appropriate installation location for non-standard packages that can't be installed in
/usr is /opt. This guideline applies to distro maintainers and upstream providers, not the
end user.
Anybody packaging Trinity for self-use can install to /usr/local. The moment those
packages are provided for others then /usr/local is inappropriate.
Anyone building the Trinity packages for personal use only can install to /usr/local if
desired. Start packaging for other users and /usr/local becomes inappropriate.
This is just until all the conflicts are hammered out?
After that all of this is mute point.
Again I use /usr/local so that I can move it to /usr very easily, ever
try cp -var /opt/tde into /usr?
rsync -var or cp -var /usr/local /usr works every time. Everthing goes
where it should.
trinity is not software locally installed by the local
system admin?
Right now it is - but very soon it will be installed from
mirrors, via
the package manager; users are expecting /usr/local to be
stuff installed by them not the package manager
For myself I don't install any upstream provided packages in /usr/local because I use
/usr/local for things I create on my own. I keep /usr/local on a separate partition, which
keeps that file system separate from everything else. That is, /usr/local is mine and I do
what I want there.
I have partitions that I mount to /usr/local.... working, wip, broken a
little, broken somewhat and very broken.
I also mount 3.5.10 when I need to and mount 3.5.12 when I working on it.
If say tde is broken I can just not mount it for the user till I get it
fixed then remount it.
Also if I need to try something out I can mount the "in test" partition
and if it don't work just mount the partition that works to /usr/local.
I build Trinity to install in /opt/trinity because I build my packages usable by other
users with the same distro. If the upstream distro I use did not include KDE4 then I would
build to install to /usr. If I was creating my own custom distro I would build to install
in /usr because I would not include KDE4.
I do both....upstream distro, users with KDE4 and users without KDE4 and
tde installed.
Then the only difference is /usr/local to /usr is just a cp away.