I run Gnome and would like to use i3 tiling window manager.
I found this package to properly install and make i3 work with gnome. As we can see in the makefile, build/install is very simple:
The problem is of course /usr/share/ being read-only.
I must admit I don’t know all the aspects of OStree and wonder where I can place these gnome files. Is using the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable a good way to solve this issue? If yes, what would be the appropriate directory where to place these files? I was thinking somewhere in my $HOME directory as it is a per user setting.
Can you give a good pointer to OSTree documentation about all these folders? I need a clear view of the main differences between a usual Linux filesystem and how OSTree organize everything. I already read the official OSTree documentation but I still miss a clear understanding.
/usr/local is a standard directory and is for administrator installed software that mirrors the structure of /usr but isn’t managed by the package manager. It’s usually includes in the paths.
So for example, if you wanted to install a binary system wide under Silverblue, rather than /usr/bin you could put it in /usr/local/bin.
AFAIK Homebrew under macOS uses /usr/local too (I sometimes wish Linux had something similar).