Don't forget /opt

Post #34,388 by tjsinclair 4/4/02 9:40:46 AM Reply	Don't forget /opt A lot of software likes to install itself by default there. However, per Karsten's docs (I think I remember this) you can just create a link from /usr/local. Tom Sinclair "Subverting Young Minds Since 03/13/2000" Daggy stepped forward, but only comparatively; in fact, his mates had all, without discussion, taken one step backwards in the choreography of caution. -- (Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent)
Post #34,393 by boxley 4/4/02 10:04:33 AM Reply	/opt *for all the expensive apps (its there) TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS
Post #34,412 by kmself 4/4/02 1:55:20 PM Reply	Linking /opt I've got two general thoughts on that. One is what I recommend in the partitioning howto -- `ln -s /usr/local /opt`. The other is to create a subdirectory `/usr/local/opt` and link it instead, as the top-level `/usr/local` directory otherwise can get somewhat polluted. This is mostly a question of asthetics. I generally vote against dedicating a partition to `/opt` -- there's a point at which you've chopped things up too much, you're better allocating the space to local and divving it up among well behaved local stuff whether it's in /opt or /usr/local. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]`
Post #34,414 by boxley 4/4/02 2:00:45 PM Reply	On a solaris box depending on the outfit might have a lot of off the shelf stuff that wants /opt, if you want to do anything useful with GPL it generally wants /usr/local. In the case og a PHB who just discovered that half the business runs on GPL and he just read an article about gates claiming it is evil, demands that all non purchased tools be removed now. I have seen it happen. Just unmount the partition and wait for a climate change. thanx, bill TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS

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