Subj : Official notice
To   : Daniel Path
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Fri Feb 25 2022 01:54 am

Hello Daniel!

Thursday February 24 2022 20:23, you wrote to me:

 > Hello Vincent,

 > 23 Feb 22 14:46, you wrote to Sean Dennis:

 VC>> Hello Sean!

 VC>> Tuesday February 22 2022 22:13, you wrote to All:

 >>> Hi everyone,

 >>> This is an official release from the MBSE Development Team.

 >>> If you install MBSE in any other directory besides /opt, we will
 >>> not support this.

 >>> From the MBSE docs ("MBSE BBS Basic Installation"):

 >>> "MBSE BBS is default installed in /opt/mbse [on GNU/Linux].  It
 >>> should be possible to install the bbs in a different location but
 >>> this is not supported.  Many have tried, and and only a few have
 >>> succeeded.  See Filesystem Hierarchy Standard for more info."

 >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

 >>> TL;DR: Install MBSE anywhere but /opt and you're your own tech
 >>> support.

 VC>> What official release  ?

 VC>> What, where, when !

 VC>> For many years I have been installing mbse at /home/mbse using
 VC>> ./configure --prefix=/home/mbse followed by a modified version of
 VC>> SETUP.sh where all instances of /opt replaced by /home.

 VC>> No issues what so ever.

 VC>> Why do I use /home?

 VC>> Because I have different distros or just different versions of a
 VC>> distro and do not want to create duplicates of the entire mbse
 VC>> directories of more than 16Gb when ever I have to test a new
 VC>> distro version prior to installing it over a production system.

 VC>> Michael had no issues with me and others doing so and DID OFFER
 VC>> FULL SUPPORT.

 VC>> So what's your problem ?

 > mkdir /opt/mbse;mount -o bind /home/mbse /opt/mbse

 > problem solved

 > Regards,
 > --
 > dp

Only if I really want to use /opt :

I have other software that works in conjunction with mbse and a stack of 
others
that might have issues where mbse sits and yes I do NOT like using /opt as 
that
can be trashed by distro updates - at least in my previous experiences.

More importantly as mbse runs as a specific user and all users work via /home
it would be silly if not possibly dangerous changing it.

My systems runs a large amount of differing systems some native and some not.

Thanks for your idea for getting around it and will take another look when 
time
allows as I am up to my neck in programming multi projects that I am really
trying to complete soon-ish but some under tight time lines.

Vincent

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