On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 06:30:42PM -0400, Derek Glidden wrote:
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> /opt is where the rest of the space goes for packages installed from
> source and other junk (like games) because you never install things into
> /usr unless you are installing from packages or you are a lunatic. and
> you just never install packages into /home because... you just don't.
>
>
>
> Nobody ever likes my partitioning schemes because they (wrongly) believe
> that a) /opt is silly and/or b) more than one partition is silly.
>
> Why are they wrong? Because:
>
> /opt is for things installed from source that won't be under whatever
> package management system you're using (rpm, deb, etc); /usr is for
> things installed from packages and you should take efforts to make sure
> the two don't fall over each other or you're just going to wind up with
> a mess. (i.e. "Oops, I had already installed the "apache" package but I
> just did "make install" into /usr someplace from the apache source and
> now I can't tell which part of which is where.") This just makes
> administering a server so much easier when you keep package-managed and
> source-installed software separated. It also makes migrating across
> machines easier since you can just rsync packages from the /opt
> partition to /opt on a new machine without affecting the rest of the
> system. (Maybe some people don't call it '/opt' but that's because of
> some kind of avoidance thing going on. they have medication for that
> sort of thing nowadays though.)
>
Umm, gee, where have I heard this before? Could it be... the FHS?!
Paul
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