On 23 February 2012 08:41, Baho Utot <baho-utot@...> wrote: > On 02/22/2012 09:01 PM, Jay wrote: > > /usr/local most certainly not. Personally i am using /usr as i have no KDE4 > installed. For the others i would imagine /opt/trinity as per instructions > ... cmon .... 4 more letters is not really hard yakka. > > Jay > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Baho Utot <baho-utot@...> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday 22 February 2012 06:19:15 pm David C. Rankin wrote: >> > Archers, All, >> > >> > Currently, Arch installs trinity to /opt/trinity. Personally, I would >> > like to move the default install to /opt/tde. Two reasons: (1) most >> > important -- less typing; (2) the tradition of the install being in >> > /opt/kde, why not standardize around /opt/tde? >> > >> > For the rest of the community -- Where are you putting tde? >> >> /usr/local >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> trinity-devel-unsubscribe@... >> For additional commands, e-mail: >> trinity-devel-help@... >> Read list messages on the web archive: >> http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ >> Please remember not to top-post: >> http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting >> > > > Isn't it easier to move to /usr from /usr/local? > > A few simple sed's and the environment is fixed. > > Ever look at startkde.ah or starttrinity.sh Again: >The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. It needs >to be safe from being overwritten when the system software is updated. It may be used for programs >and data that are shareable amongst a group of hosts, but not found in /usr. >Locally installed software must be placed within /usr/local rather than /usr unless it is being installed to >replace or upgrade software in /usr" I use /usr/ for my packages installed from my repos. stuff in /usr/local is things I manually install, or keep back because I need them. that is not a place for packages. Calvin