On Dec 7, 2007 12:42 AM, Alan DuBoff <alan.duboff at sun.com> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > /opt is where it belongs on UNIX systems; /usr is forbidden. > > That is how it worked previously, but there has been a push to move things > into /usr, where it rightfully belongs (some anyway). > > David Comay is working to get things moved from /usr/sfw to /usr, and it > is my understanding that Indiana will have packages in /usr as well. > > Ultimately, KDE should be installed to /usr, which is how things work in > the Linux world. Not that it is right, but the software should be located > there, IMO, as it would on any system. > > Look at GNOME, Sun sticks it in /usr/.
No, that argument for moving to /usr does not hold here. I'm fairly certain from the ARC cases (which I have been following with interest) that their reasoning does not apply here as they are things that Sun is distributing and is a completely different reasoning. The filesystem standard for /opt applies to 3rd party (optional) software that you add that does not come from the vendor. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
