[arch-general] NetBeans 9.0 not a drop-in replacement of 8.2

[Mr.Elendig]

On 13/11/2018 09:18, Leandro Papi wrote:
> As I understand, it's common, and the good way to have NB9.0 in
> community repository.
> I have since then put the package in IgnorePkg and kept using the 8.2 version.
>
> There are actually AUR packages for NB8.2 [1], and the nightly version
> of NB9.0 [2] which
> can be compiled with all the plugins that are not distributable in binary form.
> Let's suppose I want to create an AUR package to compile the full
> version of Netbeans 9.0,
> but I don't want it to conflict the preexisting version installed from
> community, what is the correct
> course of action?
> In which path should I install it?
>
> Leandro
>
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/netbeans8/
> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/netbeans-incubator/
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For that use case I would just throw it in $HOME instead of writing a 
package and putting it on aur.