Simple HowTo
Ric Moore
wayward4now at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 04:53:35 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 09:27 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> > 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
> ----
> /opt is where vendor packages are normally installed, generally, but not
> always commercial packages, i.e. BrightStor ArcServe will install there,
> also, Dell's OMSA and the rpms you download from OpenOffice.org
>
> The growth of the number of files in /usr/bin is a testimony to the vast
> array of software available for Fedora.
I agree, there's a ton of stuff and I'm not complaining about that,
nosiree. My comment is that the one directory looks just a little bit
full. At least with /usr/X11R6/bin it reduced the amount of traffic
in /usr/bin. If only there was a way to divvy up /usr/bin into standard
subsets, that everyone could agree on, such
as /usr/multimedia/bin, /usr/games/bin and so forth. It's a thought. Nor
would it be a huge deal to do. Ric
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