> ... and would be interested in trying out scidb, > but it seems to not conform to the packaging guidelines
According to the filesystem standard (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html): "The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being overwritten when the system software is updated. It may be used for programs and data that are shareable amongst a group of hosts, but not found in /usr." "/opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software packages." /usr would be wrong choice, because it is reserved for distribution dependent packages. The primary choice would be /opt, but I prefer /usr/local because all previous installations of Scidb are done in /usr/local (and some additional data must be installed in the /usr/local hierarchy, for example the truetype fonts). In short: the installation in /usr/local is not against the filesystem hierarchy standard, although /opt would be the primary choice. Gregor PS: Arch Linux has packaged Scidb (r945). Did eomeone try this package?
