RedHat, Fedora future?
M.Hockings
veeshooter at hockings.net
Thu Feb 5 23:10:12 UTC 2004
Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> M.Hockings wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> 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.
>
>
> 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
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