Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - installation dir

[Ernesto Celis]

2009/10/20 sridhar 

> package manager should ask the user about the installation directory
> for all user applications. usability is not automation. I don't like those
> user applications which did not ask me about the installation directory.
>

Ok, enough! You have been flooding the list asking questions without reading
and learning first the unix way. You say that you are new to unix but that
you already know and understand the power of unix tools. But your behaviour
says the contrary.

Please, stop asking and saying how OpenSolaris must be, first learn and get
used to the unix way (OpenSolaris in this case) when you feel comfortable
and with the knowledge needed to customize the Operating System to suit your
taste, go ahead and build your own distribution. Surely there would be more
people who will be glad to test and use it.

If you just want to use the system as it is packaged by someone else, then
there are plenty of choices free and propietary, make your choice and go
ahead.

OpenSolaris is very good as it is right now and fullfills most of my needs
out of the box, then in a few days I customized only what I need/want(ed) to
change, now I'm very happy and productive with my system and I'm grateful
with the OpenSolaris community and developers, and Sun too of course.

Saludos
Ernesto Celis
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Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - installation dir

[Rich Reynolds]

there is also a best practices page at:

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/policies/install-locations/
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Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - installation dir

[Tomas Bodzar]

Ou. Great. Thanks to point. I think that man hier will be more appropriate.
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Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - installation dir

[Sergio Schvezov]

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 02:07 -0700, Tomas Bodzar wrote:
> 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 should provide the necessary info:
$ man filesystem

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Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - installation dir

[Tomas Bodzar]

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.
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Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - installation dir

[Tomas Bodzar]

:-D

+1
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Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - installation dir

[Che Kristo]

This is not windows, please become familiar with unix and linux file system
heirarchies, this will give you an understanding that there is no single
"directory" that is used to contain applications.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 17:39, sridhar  wrote:

> package manager should ask the user about the installation directory
> for all user applications. usability is not automation. I don't like those
> user applications which did not ask me about the installation directory.
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[osol-discuss] package manager - installation dir

[sridhar]

package manager should ask the user about the installation directory 
for all user applications. usability is not automation. I don't like those user 
applications which did not ask me about the installation directory.
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