On 22 February 2012 18:19, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@...> 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? Sure - if it bothers you that much :-) > > For the rest of the community -- Where are you putting tde? It would just make > sense to set a community-wide standard. Yes, I know that the location is > irrelevant and can be obtained by the standard environment files, but we > recently had a rebuild of 3.5.12 that moved from /opt/kde to /opt/kde3. That's > fine, but depending upon the repo you hit to pull files from, your system would > break due to install location differences in the various packages. > I don't have any hard feelings either way for any single location, but if it > is all the same, then if possible, I would like to see a standard that all > packagers could reference. Of course you don't have to use it, but if there is a > standard install, the balance of builds will migrate to it over time. > > What says the team? > > /opt/trinity > /opt/tde > /opt/tde_ver (ver being a 2 or 3-digit version: eg. 13 or 313) > /opt/other_suggestions? > > Personally for me, /opt/tde works :) > > (/opt/trinity is probably my fault on arch anyway :) from filesystem heirarchy standard /opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software packages. A package to be installed in /opt must locate its static files in a separate / opt/<package> or /opt/<provider> directory tree, where <package> is a name that describes the software package and <provider> is the provider's LANANA registered name. I want to avoid anything in /usr/ OR /usr/local. esepcailly because this will lead to overwriting of custom built kde4 apps ( which I have ). I do not want to use /opt/tde_ver/ - this is why we have package managers, so we don't need to maintain separate folders for each version. let pacman handle the versions :-) /opt/tde /opt/trinity either one is fine. Calvin