On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:36:29PM -0800, justin bengtson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 12:15, Jim Beard wrote: > > I believe so, it's just a second tree for binaries and libs and man > > pages. > > yeah, /opt, if i remember my FHS correctly, is supposed to be "optional" > software and when i install, say, OpenSSH, it likes to go into /opt with > it's own little tree. most linux software doesn't seem to care or look > for /opt.
What do you mean by "linux software"? I'm pretty sure StarOffice/ OpenOffice, KDE (and some software that uses KDE *does* look for /opt/kde), and anything written by Joerg Schilling (cdrtools and other SCSI stuff ... and don't think that --prefix will work for his software) install into /opt by default. Of course, these *are* optional packages, that is, they aren't important to the internal workings of the base system ... and then there's the whole DJB /packages mess :( I agree, it's nice that optional add-ons don't mingle with the base files. For example, on OpenBSD, you can wipe out all the ports/pkgs you've installed (rm -rf /usr/local /var/db/pkg) and still have a fully functional system (and if that gets messed up, a simple "cd / && tar zxpf baseXX.tgz" will put it back in it's original state.) -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
