On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:23:45 PDT "Richard L. Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote:
[...] > The FOSS systems went from the model Solaris is still using, with > package-specific directory trees - to a flatter model, folding pretty > much all the applications into /usr (GNU/Linux) or their equivalent of > /opt (the various BSDs). And yes, that includes making /opt/X* > symlinks to /opt to keep older software happy. Which is a big part of the problem with Linux - putting optional (non vendor supplied) packages/binaries/libraries in the (vendor supplied) system repositories. It leads to all sorts of conflicts and forced upgrades. That is part of the reasoning behind /opt - if only we'd insisted on doing that consistently instead of trying to be "Linux compliant". [...] fpsm _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
