[arch-dev-public] /opt vs. /usr
I remember there was a thread on the ML some time ago about packages still hanging about in /opt and not being moved to /usr. What's the final word on this? I ask because I want to move wicd into extra, and the source package contains binaries and a few scripts, defaulting to /opt. Shall I leave this as is, or move the /opt/wicd to /usr/lib/wicd ? Varun
Sunday 04 November 2007, Varun Acharya wrote: | I remember there was a thread on the ML some time ago about | packages still hanging about in /opt and not being moved to /usr. | What's the final word on this? I ask because I want to move wicd | into extra, and the source package contains binaries and a few | scripts, defaulting to /opt. Shall I leave this as is, or move the | /opt/wicd to /usr/lib/wicd ? | | Varun /usr is the right prefix only standalone beasts go to /opt and only under some circumstances where it is better to keep it separated. - D -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Damir Perisa wrote:
Sunday 04 November 2007, Varun Acharya wrote: | I remember there was a thread on the ML some time ago about | packages still hanging about in /opt and not being moved to /usr. | What's the final word on this? I ask because I want to move wicd | into extra, and the source package contains binaries and a few | scripts, defaulting to /opt.
|Shall I leave this as is, or move the | /opt/wicd to /usr/lib/wicd ? | | Varun
It's hard to answer this question when we don't know what /opt/wicd is or contains. But if it's not libraries, it would be better to move it to /usr/share/wicd. Of course, if it's libraries, they should go in /usr/lib/ (or /usr/lib/wicd) and the executables in /usr/bin.
/usr is the right prefix
only standalone beasts go to /opt and only under some circumstances where it is better to keep it separated.
- D
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On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 13:37 -0500, Eric Belanger wrote:
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Damir Perisa wrote:
Sunday 04 November 2007, Varun Acharya wrote: | I remember there was a thread on the ML some time ago about | packages still hanging about in /opt and not being moved to /usr. | What's the final word on this? I ask because I want to move wicd | into extra, and the source package contains binaries and a few | scripts, defaulting to /opt.
|Shall I leave this as is, or move the | /opt/wicd to /usr/lib/wicd ? | | Varun
It's hard to answer this question when we don't know what /opt/wicd is or contains. But if it's not libraries, it would be better to move it to /usr/share/wicd. Of course, if it's libraries, they should go in /usr/lib/ (or /usr/lib/wicd) and the executables in /usr/bin.
/usr/bin: binaries /usr/lib/$pkgname: libexecdir, contains binaries you don't want in bin/ /usr/share/$pkgname: datadir. Only architecture independent files go here For /opt: We should move the last few programs from there. OpenOffice could move to /usr/lib/openoffice, mozilla could move straight to /usr and KDE and Qt should follow with Qt4 and KDE4.
On 11/4/07, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
For /opt: We should move the last few programs from there. OpenOffice could move to /usr/lib/openoffice, mozilla could move straight to /usr and KDE and Qt should follow with Qt4 and KDE4.
Oooh. Are you confident we can move everything out of opt safely? I don't know what the Qt/OOo changes would entail. If so, we should DEFINITELY do this.
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Aaron Griffin
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Damir Perisa
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Eric Belanger
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Jan de Groot
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Varun Acharya