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On 26/12/2009 18:58, James Fidell wrote:
Neil Williams wrote: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.!!!I'm going to create my own data file under /opt right now, just to see if Neil's head explodes :) James
LOL. How about putting everything in opt and symlink it back.I always wondered exactly what the point of /opt was, I've put programs in there before, but not data files. I'm guessing any well written program will put any user specific data files in the users home directory anyway.
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