[Xastir] LSB Xastir install directories
Curt Mills
archer at eskimo.com
Sat Dec 16 12:50:35 EST 2006
A message on the lsb-discuss list talked about various directories
that an LSB package could be installed to based on who is doing the
install. Here's the text:
"Three places: distro-provided (/usr), user/sysadmin (/usr/local),
and ISV (/opt). If it's in a package you provide, whether that
package is package-manager style (rpm/deb) or some other kind of
bundle (executable, unpacking shell script, whatever), it should
go in /opt, in a subdirectory that's reserved to you. /usr/local
is for the kind of thing where the "system administrator", for
want of a better term, pulls down a tarball, builds and installs
it."
Since the plan eventually is to provide it in RPM and perhaps DEB
format, I guess we're still stuck with /opt/Xastir, while standard
source builds will go into /usr/local, and OS-supplied binaries may
go into /usr. Personally I find all of this confusing.
--
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