On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Arie Folger wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > /opt and /usr/local are the same: not part of the "formal" system, and > > intended for extra packages. Although debian places some a few config > > files in /usr/local > > But quite some flamers are upset at RH for putting everything in /usr/bin. In > fact, a few months ago mosfet went beserk complaining about `ls /usr/bin|wc > -l` returing a number greater than 1500. So I wondered whether debian guys > were doing it differently. When you put all of KDE under /opt , you have to remember that you have config files not only under /etc, but also in /opt/kde[23]/share/config Debian (also redhat) finally moved those to /etc/kde[23] Actually, it seems an odd complaint to me: anything under /opt is for me "not part of the system". Redhat (and also mandrake and debian, which also put KDE under /usr) mearly say that there is one version of KDE that comes with the system, and is part of the system. It makes upgrades slightly more complicated, but then again, if you use RPMs, you shouldn't go around deleting an old installation. There are better ways. On my solaris at the CS faculty my PATH includes (not limited to): /usr/bin , /usr/local/bin , /opt/sfw/bin , /opt/sfw/gnome/bin , /opt/sfw/kde/bin And I don't like it better. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
