[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX: What is the file nxclient good for?

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 12:25:48AM +0200, Fabian Franz wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 08:51:29PM +0200, Johannes Kastl wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I just exchanged some mails with the suse maintainer of the FreeNX
> > > package. One problem I had was that I could not install his newest
> > > package, cos it wanted to overwrite the file /usr/NX/bin/nxclient from
> > > the nomachine nxclient rpm. That was no problem in older packages, as
> > > he now has changed the folders, and places the whole FreeNX stuff in
> > > /usr/NX/bin.
> > 
> > ... which I reverted now again.
> 
> On that note if you change that I suggest using:
> 
> /opt/FreeNX/* as it clearly shows that its FreeNX and not !M NX, /opt is accepted as FHS compatible and that location really should not interfere with anything else.

AFAIK /opt should be used by 3rd party packages.

I'm currently using /usr/bin for FreeNX scripts and /usr/lib/NX for
open source NX libs/executables (+ /usr/bin for wrapper scripts). 

!M still uses /usr/NX for everything.

Best regards,
Stefan

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