Hi, thanks for your answer!
On 2007-01-31 20:09:06 +0100, Michael Thayer wrote: > Hello Marcus, > > At the moment, we create links in /usr/bin to a script in the main > VirtualBox directory. Is there a particular reason not to install to > /opt, as we do now? Personally, I prefer applications which were not > installed through my distributions package system to be put somewhere I > can clearly see rather than scattered around my system. That means that > if the uninstaller doesn't work for some reason, I can remove them more > easily (I know that that will not happen with VirtualBox of course :) > No there's no technical reason not to install it into /opt i just don't like it:) In my opinion it's better to install everything into the "right" dirs. > I assume though that VirtualBox packages will soon start to appear in > Linux distributions, and they will package them to best fit in with the > rest of their system. > Yep that's why i asked. I wanted to start packaging virtualbox (the svn snapshots) in the opensuse buildservice. I already have some working rpms for (open)suse around but they still need a bit "fine-tuning";) Marcus _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
