On Thu 10 Jun 2010 15:17, Graham Cobb <[email protected]> writes: > On Thursday 10 June 2010 12:28:10 Andrew Flegg wrote: >> Using /opt/maemo for anything other than maemo-optify output could >> cause confusion, if not problems. > > I agree with Andrew. We have enough problems maintaining the optify hack > without having to worry about other people creating files/directories > in /opt/maemo. Consider /opt/maemo reserved for maemo-optify.
Uh. I did not realise this -- and have made one package that uses /opt/maemo itself... have to change that. Maybe I have to settle with /opt/packagename (did I mention I dislike this) as there is no "official" directory (as /opt/maemo should not be used). > But I would encourage people to do their own optification if that is > feasible. In particular, for new apps, please avoid automatic > optification and put your files in /opt yourself. Feel free to create a > different /opt directory (say /opt/MaemoApp) if you want to put lots of > small apps in one place. > > It would be helpful if tools like MADDE and QtCreator would handle this > automatically for people. Some going to /opt/xxx, other (desktop/service etc. files) to /usr/... I'll have to check what MADDE (mad pscreate) can do. > > Graham Tomi _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
