Erik Troan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are also issues like existing customers tend to have small / > partitions and no /opt, and woulnd't have been able to install KDE without > symlink mucking as well. Making sure that folks can easily upgrade to LSB > distributions from current ones should be a priorty, and it argues against > /opt (unless you think ln -s /usr/opt /opt is a good idea, which I think is > just a hack).
I think "ln -s /<large-partition>/opt /opt" is fine. We only care about the pathname that gets referenced. Also, in the actual implementation, /usr doesn't have to be the location. As an example, I have this at home: / (root partition, which actually includes /usr) /export (large partition) /home -> /export/home /usr/local -> /export/local And if I had a /opt at home, I would do: /opt -> /export/opt I separate out /export to separate all local stuff from distribution stuff, but this same structure could be used to solve small / partitions for new customers. Using a symbolic link to /usr (assuming it's a mount-point) for existing customers may or may not be a hack, but it works and it make sense. (The name "export" has no particular meaning here since the filesystems aren't exported anywhere. You can call it whatever you want.) - Dan
