On Thursday 17 Nov 2005 19:28, tim panton wrote: > On 17 Nov 2005, at 17:25, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > > Simon Lockhart wrote: > >> Yes. There's the Sun way, and then the way that everyone else does > >> it. If you > >> take a look at sunfreeware.com, you'll find that everything > >> installs into > >> /usr/local because that's where everyone who wasn't indoctrinated > >> into the Sun > >> way of doing things places stuff. > > > > Understandable... I don't know of any good solution to this problem > > then. If enough Solaris users get together and decide the default > > install paths should be different, then we can change it, but I'd > > like to see a reasonable consensus on the topic before I tell the > > Sun people that we are disregarding their suggestion :-) > > The history here is that in classic Solaris /usr can be mounted read > only by a roomful of diskless devices. > This means that you didn't put _anything_ in /usr that hadn't come > off the OS disk.
Hence the reason why /usr/local usually went on a separate partition. B _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
