On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 21:31, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 06:30:42PM -0400, Derek Glidden wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > /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?!
Is it really? I've never actually looked at the FHS or the LSB or
anything like that. Does it use the same arguments in favor of /opt?
I've just been "an /opt kind of guy" for pretty much ever. What can I
say, I'm ahead of the curve. :)
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