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On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:51:18 +0000 (GMT) Peter Lloyd-Jones <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As you know I am a model railroad enthusiast. Currently we tend to > let the user store the programme Java Model Railroad Interface in his > home directory. > > I was wondering if in fact it should live in /opt. NO. No, No, never, absolutely not, under no circumstances, no excuses, must not, can not, do not.!!! > It would be great > if we could eventually get it in the repositories. Applications have no right to put any data below /opt/ - see the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ User data must stay in user home - see also the XDG spec for how new applications should handle user data in user home. Programme data does under /usr/share if it is archtiecture-independent or /usr/lib and /usr/bin etc. when architecture-specific. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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