On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:23:51PM -0700, Willy Lee wrote: > "Scott" == Scott V McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sharing /home isn't so hard if there are only a few users. I do it > > at home where there is just me and (occasionally) my wife. > > > I have thought of sharing /opt and perhaps /usr/local, but have been > > worried that in addition to the stuff that I install by hand some > > rpms or debs will put stuff there. I don't want to mix that stuff. > > IIRC, both rpm and dpkg are specifically supposed to keep their hands > off of /opt and /usr/local; they are supposed to be user only. >
debian packages never put anything in /usr/local other then empty directories. rpms very frequently toss junk in /usr/local though. (at least they did way back when i used redhat 5.x -> 6.0) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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