I just wanna do my work

[Darren Critchley]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:28:31PM -0700, Darren Critchley wrote:
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>>I installed Eclipse this morning in /usr/lib/eclipse using sudo and all 
>>was working fine until I tried to add  EPIC to it, then it could not 
>>write to the directory structure.
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>>I tried several things and in the end I changed ownership of the eclipse 
>>dir tree to the default user on my system, is this a bad thing to do? I 
>>know that only  my default user will be able to access it, but it is a 
>>laptop, and I am the only user on it.
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>>Comments please.
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>/opt/eclipse would be a better place to install it.
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That is where I usually install things is /opt as I understood it to be 
part of the Linux Base Standard, however, this recipe called for /usr/lib.

I can go change it, but I was just wondering is there are any issues 
(other than not being able to allow multiple users) with changing the 
eclipse directory tree to be owned by the default user?

Thanks
Darren