On 25-Nov-97 Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: >> Indeed. I never quite understood this strategy of putting things >> under /opt. Once I had problems on a SUN because the system >> couldn't handle the length of the PATH an MANPATH variables anymore: >> every package gets its own bin, lib and man directory. We should >> never indulge in letting this plague enter the debian file system >> structure. > > What a nightmare! > Things in /opt should be "installed" in /opt/bin, /opt/lib, /opt/man, > ecc. using symlinks and/or wrappers. > Well done upstream packages which use /opt should carry an utility to > install symlinks and wrappers in /opt/* or /usr/local/* at wish. > > The /opt idea is to isolate upstream packages from peculiarities of > different OSes, not to pollute users' namespace. > > Check the FHS-2.0
In my humble opinion /opt has another very useful and practical function. You can mount a whole new disk partition on /opt, when your original /usr partition is getting full. Since some of the commercial packages not only are designed to install under /opt by default, but also are big (~100MB), this is useful. Just buy a new HD and mount it on /opt. Then you can set all the symlinks from /usr you like -- they don't take up much space. Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Ted Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 25-Nov-97 Time: 22:32:58 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
