E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > Indeed. I never quite understood this strategy of putting things > under /opt. Once I had problems on a SUN because the system > couldn't handle the length of the PATH an MANPATH variables anymore: > every package gets its own bin, lib and man directory. We should > never indulge in letting this plague enter the debian file system > structure.
What a nightmare! Things in /opt should be "installed" in /opt/bin, /opt/lib, /opt/man, ecc. using symlinks and/or wrappers. Well done upstream packages which use /opt should carry an utility to install symlinks and wrappers in /opt/* or /usr/local/* at wish. The /opt idea is to isolate upstream packages from peculiarities of different OSes, not to pollute users' namespace. Check the FHS-2.0 Fabrizio -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Pluto Leader - Debian Developer & Happy Debian 1.3.1 User - vi-holic | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
