On Mon, 09 May 2011 13:36:49 +0200
Tollef Fog Heen <[email protected]> wrote:

> ]] Karl Goetz 
> 
> | > Separate /usr makes sense is in the embedded case where you are
> | > seriously space-restricted and you might want have your OS on fast
> | > flash and the apps and user data on cheaper, but slower flash.  In
> | > those cases, I'd suggest putting apps in /opt rather than the more
> | > common /usr.
> | 
> | for a repackaging vendor i can imagine /opt/ being the right place,
> but | using /opt for OS components seems slightly bizarre to me
> (perhaps I'm | just too used to the current fhs!).
> 
> Well, if you have something like the N900, you'll have the
> vendor-provided OS that includes X and whatever libraries that is part
> of the standard stack.  In addition, you have various apps and addons
> that install to /opt.  Those are not created by Nokia, but by
> third-party vendors.  (Nokia does distribute them through their
> application installer, though.)  I think using /opt in that case makes
> perfect sense.

I agree, thats how i would envisage /opt being used too.
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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