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FS#38295 - [alienarena] move game data from /usr/share to /var/lib

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Willem van Asperen (wasperen) - Friday, 27 December 2013, 20:12 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Monday, 30 December 2013, 23:36 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

I noticed that the directory /usr/share/alienarea is some 1.2Gb in size. This fills up my /usr partition. There is usually more room available on the /var partition... Would it be possible to move the game data to /var/lib/alienarena?

I have now moved the directory there and placed a sym link on the original spot. Feels like a work-around...

Additional info:
* alienarena 7.66
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Closed by  Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Monday, 30 December 2013, 23:36 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  All our game stuff is in /usr/share and besides it doesn't really matter where it is. I'm certainly not going to move it for one user for one game.
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Saturday, 28 December 2013, 06:18 GMT
Why would /var be larger than /usr? That makes no sense at all in a modern desktop Linux install, and to say that that's usually the case is just wrong.

Upstream installs it to /usr/share, I don't see why Arch should move it.
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Saturday, 28 December 2013, 08:11 GMT
Moving them to /var/lib will fill my /var partition, can we keep them in /usr/share?

(I'm joking, but I don't expect packagers to take decision based on users' partitions size)

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