On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Nicholas Petreley wrote: > Why would it have to be a standard part of the upgrade process to worry > about symbolic links? Wouldn't the upgrade program simply reference /opt? > If the user/admin had moved it to /something/opt and linked to it since the > install process I would think the upgrade program wouldn't care.
Existing Linux system by and large don't have /opt; if we start moving KDE or GNOME from /usr to /opt, those systems with small / partitions will break. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Who is John Galt?" - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | | | | Linux Application Development -- http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad |
