pelle: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 23:00 +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > > I would also very much like the default installation path for stable > > releases as well to be (e.g.) /local/apps/ion-x[-yyyyyyyy] with just symlinks > > in /local/bin/, but the *nix file system hierarchy is what it is, and all the > > serious attempts to change it seem to be by RecentWindowsConverts AttractedTo > > MarketdroidNamingConventions. > > What about /opt? It's in the [1]FHS, and it's pretty much what you > describe. > > I'm not really sure I like the symlink farming thing, but I don't know > how it should be implemented otherwise either. > > [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES
There's no /opt on OpenBSD, or NetBSD, probably not on FreeBSD too. If anything wanted to go in /opt, we would have to rewrite the install script to change it to use something in /usr/local/ anyway. Some things are just not going to fly with the old-style unix guys writing these OS'. -- Don
