> From: "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:03:24 -0500 > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Steve Kostecke wrote: > > On 2008-02-05, Richard B. Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > <special trim just for Steve> > > > > I believe that the BSD world will disagree with you here. > > > > If you design your product for JUST the BSD world, that's fine. > > There is more to the world than BSD. For Solaris, the Unix that I use, > /usr/local is NOT best practice. > > Now BSD and System V have, over the years, exchanged genetic material in > ways that would make a stock breeder blush. I think it would be hard to > find a system that was PURE BSD or PURE System V. > > I think it is clearly better to put applications in a directory tree by > themselves, one that is NOT part of the O/S.
Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! This discussion has degenerated from its initial silly, jingoistic post and is not likely to improve. People on both sides of this bikeshed (BSDism) will kindly take several deep breaths and stop saying silly things that will only serve to embarrass them at some future time. There is NO functional or practical difference between /opt and /usr/local. Both are under the root (/) and are part of the file system. They both may share a partition or drive with /usr or not. Both serve the same purpose and both have a long history. I seem to recall that /opt descends form SysV and /usr/local from BSD. It would not surprise me if early versions of SunOS, which were based on BSD, used /usr/local, but I really don't remember. Use one or the other or mix them. It really makes no difference. If you can't figure out how to deal with this on your "Unix-like" OS, go find a sysadmin who has a clue. It's really not hard. As for me, I only will play with the blue ball and anyone playing with the red one is stupid! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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