Good question. I’ve never used that location, and have not otherwise seen any recommendation to use it for a single/local-user installation.
I’ve seen people recommend to recreate the official tree under ~/ (~/usr, ~/usr/local, ~/usr/bin) which doesn’t make much sense to me, or something else like: ~/apps, ~/applications I would think a recommendation of: $HOME/apps/gnucash, $HOME/applications/gnucash would be fine as it would be easier to remove. (one could maybe keep a `$HOME/apps/gnucash/build` directory around for that eventual removal) Regards, Adrien > On May 2, 2019, at 6:01 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote: > > Our current wiki on building gnucash for Ubuntu 16.04 (https:// > wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04) suggests $HOME/.local as a valid > installation prefix. > > While checking for another thread I have found this to be problematic. > > In particular when using this installation prefix, a number of files and > directories will be added in $HOME/.local/share/. That directory however is > also to primary directory where a running applications store their runtime > data. So the same directory is being used as installation directory and data > directory. > > That makes it pretty difficult to quickly remove the local gnucash > installation in one go as the installation directory may also hold runtime > data (and from more than one application!). > > So personally I would recommend against using $HOME/.local as installation > prefix. I am however curious where this suggestion originally came from. > > Regards, > > Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel