On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:18:20 -0800, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:23:51PM -0700, Willy Lee wrote:
> > "Scott" =3D=3D Scott V McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Sharing /home isn't so hard if there are only a few users. I do it
> > > at home where there is just me and (occasionally) my wife.
> > > I have thought of sharing /opt and perhaps /usr/local, but have been
> > > worried that in addition to the stuff that I install by hand some
> > > rpms or debs will put stuff there. I don't want to mix that stuff.
> > IIRC, both rpm and dpkg are specifically supposed to keep their hands
> > off of /opt and /usr/local; they are supposed to be user only.
>
> debian packages never put anything in /usr/local other then empty
> directories. rpms very frequently toss junk in /usr/local though.
> (at least they did way back when i used redhat 5.x -> 6.0)
>
Depends on what is specified in the spec file, of course. Some distros
even have their rpms configured to put some stuff in /opt, e.g. SuSE.
But then, the /opt fs layout usually lets you keep apart things rather easily.
OTOH, I believe all original Redhat rpms only use /usr (maybe not the stuff
from contrib, though).
Cheers,
Derek
