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

2009-10-26 Thread Ernesto Celis
2009/10/20 sridhar devatha.srid...@gmail.com 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

[osol-discuss] package manager - installation dir

2009-10-20 Thread 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. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

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

2009-10-20 Thread 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 devatha.srid...@gmail.com wrote: package manager should ask

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

2009-10-20 Thread Tomas Bodzar
:-D +1 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2009-10-20 Thread 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

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

2009-10-20 Thread 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

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

2009-10-20 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Ou. Great. Thanks to point. I think that man hier will be more appropriate. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2009-10-20 Thread Rich Reynolds
there is also a best practices page at: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/policies/install-locations/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org