On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:17:06 +0000, you wrote: >On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:34:31AM -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote: >> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:09:07 +1100, you wrote: >> >> Apt-get is a great tool, however it insists on installing everything in >> /usr. Which means that it is >> difficult to make use of extra hard drives. > >??? >could you elaborate?
I have about 60 mb on /usr. A software installing session could use that in nothing flat. I have plenty of room on /mnt, but I have to install by hand to get anything there. Then X doesn't know about it, etc. I can edit x menus. But still, it is not as easy as using apt which was my original point. It is possible to attach a new hard drive to /usr/local, but most software packages are not smart enough to use it in a manual installation. Netscape 6, Adabas db, java sdk, Netbeans are not for instance. Gleason
