On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 07:14:48PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 04/04/16 17:57, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > >> ... My question is, do we need the "opt/" prefix at all (for the future, > >> i.e., the non-historical cases)? > >> Looking at the last discussion, I > >> believe we converged on: > >> > >> - QEMU devs (future filenames): org.qemu/... > >> - users: com.my_company/... > >> - QEMU fw devs (future names): org.tianocore.edk2.ovmf/... > >> org.seabios/... > >> - QEMU fw devs hacking: <root-prefix-to-strip>/... > >> > >> Did you find something unsafe about this (necessitating "opt/")? > >> > > > > The reason to use the opt/ prefix is to avoid warning > > with QEMU 2.4 and 2.5. > > Sorry, it's been a long day :), and I don't understand your answer. Can > you please spell it out for me? How are QEMU 2.4 and 2.5 related to this > discussion? > > Thanks! > Laszlo
People would want to use the same command line for QEMU 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6. If you use a prefix without opt with 2.4/2.5 you get a warning, and if people get a warning from a valid command line, that's not nice, so we want a prefix that does not cause a warning for these versions. -- MST
