On 12/08/2012 06:56 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Dec 7, 2012, at 21:50, Phil Dobbin wrote: > >> On 12/08/2012 03:32 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> >>> On Dec 7, 2012, at 20:59, Phil Dobbin wrote: >>> >>>> I thought maybe somebody might find this interesting: >>>> >>>> <http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Contributor_Documentation/1/html/Software_Collections_Guide/index.html> >>> >>> Which part should we be looking at? In what way does "Fedora do MacPorts"? >>> I didn't see "MacPorts" mentioned on that page. >> >> No, it was more to do with the concept behind Software Collections. >> Disregarding the fact it installs into /opt, it looks a similar >> principle; a set of supplementary ports installed elsewhere in the >> system (in /opt) that do not clash with system stuff. >> >> It was all rather light hearted on my part. My apologies if that was not >> made obvious in my post. > > Ah I see. Well I'm not surprised by this, since that's the purpose of the > /opt directory in a UNIX system: to hold OPTional software. That's why > MacPorts uses a prefix under /opt. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard#Directory_structure >
Yeah, I covered all that in my RHCSA exam ;-) Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy & Spherical, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal
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