On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 05:14:28PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > This draft includes the recently discussed additions to /opt. > > Debian does not use /opt; we reserve it for third parties and end > users. Doesn't the FHS call for at some point the standard /usr/local subdirs be found in /opt (ie, /opt/bin, /opt/sbin, etc)? I recall reading that, but am not sure if that was added to 2.1 or removed from 2.0 in a 2.1 draft or always there or just my imagination .... => Anyway, if those dirs should exist (and I think they probably should as they're useful for providing symlinks to other dirs to keep paths and the like sane) should we actually create them or rely on the sysadmin to do that if they plan to use those dirs (I believe they were reserved for sysadmin's use) or what? If I am not smoking something potent, what would be the purpose of both /opt/bin and /usr/local/bin? Compatibility provided to prevent breaking things unexpectedly ? Why not just suggest one should be linked to the other? (Most people do that already I think--I used to but I've since given /opt its own partition) -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 PGP 2.6: 2048R/50BDA0ED - E8 D6 84 81 E3 A8 BB 77 8E E2 29 96 C9 44 5F BE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Knghtbrd> you people are all insane. <Joey> knight: sure, that's why we work on Debian. <JHM> Knghtbrd: get in touch with your inner nutcase.
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