Proposal : Installing linuxcnc in /opt/ directory

Hi,

The user must have admin privileges to install the linuxcnc package in the first place.
With all the deb packages to install you need a sudo. I think therefore Linux is quite sequre.
If you can do anything without sudo, vulnerability increases.

At the moment i have a deb package finished with linuxcnc installed in the /opt/ folder. With a linuxcnc launcher in
the system menu.

Then i had to find a solution for linuxcnc-ethercat, where to place this directory?
I have made a /opt/linuxcnc/addons/ folder.

There is linuxcnc-ethercat installed as addon. Just like Freecad has more off the less this structure for addon's.

Everything seems very structured now.

I am happy now.

I am open to the idea, but suspect it is a decision to be made by the 2,9 release manager.

(No, I don't think that we have one yet)

andypugh wrote: I am open to the idea, but suspect it is a decision to be made by the 2,9 release manager.

(No, I don't think that we have one yet)

I thought you had that job for life :evil: :woohoo:

Clive S wrote:

andypugh wrote: I am open to the idea, but suspect it is a decision to be made by the 2,9 release manager.

(No, I don't think that we have one yet)

I thought you had that job for life :evil: :woohoo:

I vote YES!

I vote oke too.

In general. The proposal has no hurry.

I remember working with /opt installation locations.
On one hand it was clean to keep everything there for, say, a major FEM package.
On the other hand it was always a hassle to get /opt/package/bin in the PATH
and /opt/package/lib for LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and MANPATH and that's how far I remember.
I don't particularly like the idea of /opt but if all those things can be fixed, why not?