Noah Sombrero wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:09:07 +1100, you wrote: > > >If I was you, I would concentrate on ease of upgrade (as mentioned before by > >someone, apt-get), > > Apt-get is a great tool, however it insists on installing everything in /usr. > Which means that it is > difficult to make use of extra hard drives. >
Apt installs there because that's where the FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/) says things should go. That's actually an advantage, knowing that a typical installation will use X MB of space under /usr, and Y MB under /var, and so on. You're also able to make consistent decisions about what directories can be NFS-mounted, and which ones must be local (to anyone who accidentally messed up /lib, this is much appreciated). Rather than making it difficult to use extra hard drives, this easily allows you to dedicate a partition to /usr, possibly one to /usr/local (if you install a lot of stuff that's not under apt's control). --Rich _________________________________________________________ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _________________________________________________________
