Game dir

josephmc · 2005-06-19 17:20:54

I recently but the game glest into AUR and very quickly got a comment from neotuli saying that the game should be in /usr/games instead of /usr/local/games. I thought this was right but most of the games I see in AUR are using /usr/local/games. The topic below talks about hwo /usr/local is for files not managed by a package manager. I know that I got jumped because the "recent updates" section allows people to see when new packages are added. So what should the other gaming packagers that use /usr/local/games do?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=4953

phrakture · 2005-06-19 18:23:20

arch does not use /usr/local, and any packages installed by pacman should not install there either.

The reason the AUR packages use /usr/local is because they are made by users, who probably haven't read the packaging guidelines.

Dusty · 2005-06-19 20:47:11

Further /usr/local is meant for installing programs that are installed from source or binaries and not by the package manager. This allows you to keep the mess separate from the clean pacman managed stuff.

A lot of installers, especially for games, seem to install to /usr/local by default for this reason, but if you put it in a PKGBUILD you should change it.

Dusty

dtw · 2005-06-19 22:01:45

josephmc: there has been confusion about this before but as the boys have said using /usr/local is a no for PKGBUILDs

josephmc · 2005-06-19 22:37:04

I just wanted to put this out here. I know you guys don't do it. It's the users like you said.

btw thanks for repeating exactly what I said. I understand why /usr/local should not be used for pacman. I just want others to know.

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Game dir

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