If you want to have garbage on your disk then use another OS. Packaging systems like IPS and others are here to have consistent hierarchy of installed packages on your system for easy maintenance, easy writing of apps from third vendors and so on.
If you are installing some app which is not in repositories then there is a possibility that you can choose where to install it (like with RealPlayer). But anyway, recommended directory is /opt . I can't find similar man page on OpenSolaris (maybe it's thanks to ZFS filesystem which is totally different then others on Unix or Win platform) but you can get idea here http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hier&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html or in similar pages on Linux and so on. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
