Yes, something like that would make more sense to me as well. Op donderdag 2 mei 2019 17:03:53 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone: > 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
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