On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 02:07 -0700, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > If you want to have garbage on your disk then use another OS. > Packaging systems like IPS and others are here to have consistent hierarchy > of installed packages on your system for easy maintenance, easy writing of > apps from third vendors and so on. > > If you are installing some app which is not in repositories then there is a > possibility that you can choose where to install it (like with RealPlayer). > But anyway, recommended directory is /opt . I can't find similar man page on > OpenSolaris > (maybe it's thanks to ZFS filesystem which is totally different then others > on Unix or > Win platform) but you can get idea here > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hier&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html > or in similar pages on Linux and so on.
This should provide the necessary info: $ man filesystem _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
