[maemo-developers] Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

[From: Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik]

:2009-09-10T11:29:Mohammed Hassan:

> But you are not a normal user here :-)
> 

I guess it depends what a normal user would be for this device. If it
were for example my mom(I'm being very specific here) she would know
to expect /mnt and /media and even /usr/bin and such things(and yes she
uses Xubuntu).

> You know that stuff ends in /usr/local on BSD and in /usr on GNU/Linux
> and you can know that they end up in /opt in Maemo5
> 
> It's almost impossible to support everyone. Point is to support the
> important/common uses but not make the life of the minor uses miserable.

I guess that's the point I'm arguing. It should be possible to do it
without jumping through hoops. So I guess in the end I don't really care
as long as it won't be to hard to adjust it back to /usr or /usr/local
without symlinks. That's really the one solution I dislike - symlinks.

> If you already know that we have /usr or that there's something callled
> autobuilder and know you can set it up then you are not a normal user.
> 
> And I'm not wearing my Nokia hat here. I'm wearing my FOSS hat :)

I really don't care what hat someone wears ;) I react to everyone in the
same manner.

Regards

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