Ted Harding wrote: > In my humble opinion /opt has another very useful and practical function. > > You can mount a whole new disk partition on /opt, when your original /usr > partition is getting full. Since some of the commercial packages not only are > designed to install under /opt by default, but also are big (~100MB), this is > useful. Just buy a new HD and mount it on /opt. > > Then you can set all the symlinks from /usr you like -- they don't take up > much > space.
I don't mind having things in /opt, /usr2, or whatever. I can even see the advantages. But I do feel it should be the packaging system that takes care of making symbolic links, not me. On the SUN it didn't, which caused a lot of trouble. Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
