Anthony Sorace <a...@9srv.net> said: > Unix has two camps for approaching this problem /usr/local and /opt. > While they're almost never followed well on modern unix systems, the > idea is basically a global local overlay vs. a per-package overlay. > > The /usr/local approach takes all packages not part of the base > system and creates a "local root", a global mirror of (roughly) the > root file system. Those poor souls don't have bind to work with, so > everything ends up "knowing" to look in /bin and /usr/local/bin, /etc > and /usr/local/etc, and so on. Packages from multiple sources are all > intermixed in one /usr/local, so you've basically got the base system > vs. everything else. EBo's /sys_aps is basically a recreation of /usr/ > local. > > ...
Actually no. I am advocating for the /opt (per-package) model. Sorry that was not clear. I simply called it sys_apps in an attempt to make it clear that I was talking about installed system wide apps. Sorry for not being clearer. EBo --
