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| From: | Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades | ||
| Date: | Sun, 06 Dec 2015 17:53:05 | ||
| Message-Id: | 0FAB6926-6E8F-4B3E-83A4-1B682F7B4685@stellar.eclipse.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades by gevisz |
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| 1 | > On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 4:13 p.m., gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 2 | >> |
| 3 | >> Surely it should go in somewhere like /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ instead. |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > I do not have /usr/local/share directory at all. Do you think it is wrong? |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Local directories are ones which you can create to put system stuff in, system stuff which isn't supplied by the distro. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | The package manager won't install into local directories, so your changes won't be overwritten. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Use of a directory like /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ would require X11 to honour that path - you'd need to check. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Stroller. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | * https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/3/html/Reference_Guide/s1-filesystem-fhs.html |
| 16 | • http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11544/what-is-the-difference-between-opt-and-usr-local |
| 17 | • https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/s3-filesystem-usr-local.html |
| 18 | • http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY |