On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 09:54:39AM -1000, Joseph Kowalski wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >I like the idea of a BSD-like /usr/pkg/ (like /opt, but in /usr). > > > Which we would call /usr/opt. We really need something like this since > zones hit the scene (with /opt > being part of root). > > (Actually, I think the zones project should have taken on the huge job > of making /opt a "magic mount > point" like /usr is but that didn't happen and isn't likely to happen.) > > However, this diverges from the discussion at hand.
Last post on this, I promise. It's not just zones, but diskless. I'm inclined to think that /opt was a mistake and it should have been /usr/opt all along, though I'm likely missing some history.
