Re: FHS question

2003-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom Allison wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >Tom Allison wrote: > >>FHS says that this directory is for "binaries not needed in single user > >>mode". > >>But then I went over and looked at the /opt which also seemed rather > >>reasonable as a place to put things. Those are definitely six of one

Re: FHS question

2003-08-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:18:45AM -0400, Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:35:44AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > > > >>FHS says that this directory is for "binaries not needed in single > >>user mode". But then I went over and looked at the /

Re: FHS question

2003-08-01 Thread Todd Pytel
Tom, On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 07:18:45 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wouldn't it be possible to utilize /opt for big packages (open office, > > mozilla, KDE, Gnome, Java) and still leave /opt for system > administrators? > > I kind of like the idea of putting what you need for the b

Re: FHS question

2003-08-01 Thread John Hasler
Tom writes: > Wouldn't it be possible to utilize /opt for big packages (open office, > mozilla, KDE, Gnome, Java) and still leave /opt for system > administrators? That would violate the FHS. /opt was invented by the proprietary Unices. The FHS includes it as a concession to some proprietary pro

Re: FHS question

2003-08-01 Thread Tom Allison
Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:35:44AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: FHS says that this directory is for "binaries not needed in single user mode". But then I went over and looked at the /opt which also seemed rather reasonable as a place to put things. It also seems a heck of a lot

Re: FHS question

2003-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:35:44AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > FHS says that this directory is for "binaries not needed in single user > mode". > But then I went over and looked at the /opt which also seemed rather > reasonable as a place to put things. > > It also seems a heck of a lot easier t

FHS question

2003-07-31 Thread Tom Allison
I was trolling through the Debain Policy Manual and then the referenced FHS and came up wit a question. This is just an example. openoffice is installed from .debs that I obtained (I believe) from a non-debian sanctioned location: deb http://ftp.sk.debian.org/openoffice-debian/ stable main cont