RedHat, Fedora future?

[M.Hockings]

Bevan C. Bennett wrote:

> M.Hockings wrote:
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>> Lastly, I have installed IBM's WSAD in RH9 and FC1 and it gets 
>> installed into /opt/IBM/... so I have to assume that the installer 
>> does have control over where things are installed.  It was not an RPM 
>> install though.
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> I hate /opt. I hate it soooo much. I curse the day Sun and HP started 
> using it. I hate it because / and /usr were usually separate 
> partitions, with all the extra space for installing programs going 
> into /usr instead of /. Usually I end up having to link /opt to 
> /usr/opt and hope that the installation program in question is smart 
> enough to check that there's "enough space" on the correct partition 
> without being too smart and trying to 'fix' my /opt directory.
>
Interesting.  Of all the install related things in Linux this one 
confused me the most.  I wanted to poke through what was installed but 
could not find it right off.  This /opt directory was, to say the least, 
unexpected.  So in that regard I'd tend to agree that opt is not 
desirable as well as your point about spurious directories in / making 
partition size management a challenge...

Mike