Simple HowTo
Ric Moore
wayward4now at gmail.com
Tue Dec 18 23:27:12 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 11:41 -0800, Aldo Foot wrote:
>
> I hope I am not off-topic, but one thing that sorta bothers
> me is that many, if not *most* applications are being placed
> in /usr/share as if a catchall place? It seems to contain
> more
> than 50% of /usr space alone?
>
> It seems to me, that many applications such as 'games' for
> example,
> ought to be in it's own common directory such
> as /usr/(local/)games
> so that these (large) applications can be easily
> symlinked/mounted
> elsewhere if need be, otherwise it can be bothersome to move,
> mount,
> or symlink these otherwise potentially large applications?
>
> I wonder what the point is of having /usr/games, /usr/local
> if
> no one seems to use these otherwise mostly empty directories?
>
> I seem to think it might be an added bonus giving the
> installer
> the choice as to where to install their application(s)?
>
> Just wondering.
Me too. /opt appears to be not used at all. Packages like OO used to
live there, and /usr/bin is REALLY crowded nowadays since the use
of /usr/X11/bin got canceled. I'm wondering too. Ric
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