Andreas Voegele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> In my opinion, the installation guide should suggest creating > >> an /opt partition if the user intends to install commercial > >> software like Applixware, Civilization or the Oracle RDBMS, but > >> nothing else should be done. > > > What problem is solved by not providing the skeleton > > directories? > > You suggest creating the following directories by default: > > /etc/opt, /opt/bin, /opt/doc, /opt/include, /opt/info, /opt/lib, > /opt/man and /var/opt. > > Firstly, none of the existing applications that go to /opt use these > directories. For example, the version of Applixware that SuSE ships > goes to /opt/applix and is started with /usr/bin/X11/applixware. > There's neither a need for the directories you suggest nor for > symbolic links in /opt/bin.
Well, that's a bug, since they have no right to install things into /usr/bin/X11, but should instead suggest to the admin that they do something like this: ln -s /opt/applix/bin/applixware /usr/local/bin possibly by making it an optional action at the and of the install script, with a ``Do you want me to do this?'' prompt. Other than that, I agree with you wholeheartedly. Cheers, Phil.
