Re: What configuration prefix ?
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 03:47:41PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > Yes. Acronym overuse is bad, and DSP has been around for a long time.
> > How about /opt/snapshots?
> >
> > > What do people think of using /opt? I think it's a better choice than
> > > putting things under /usr/local. And we don't want to put things in
> > > the FSSTND locations, because we want to be able to install these at
> > > the same time as the released Debian packages without causing
> > > conflicts.
> >
> > I'm not fond of /opt in general, but I agree the alternatives are
> > worse.
>
> no /opt. no /usr/local. /usr/lib/snapshots is much better.
> debian should NOT touch those first 2.
No, I don't think so. /usr/lib/snapshots is too cumbersome for this,
and I see no good reason not to use a SUBDIRECTORY of /opt - not
/opt/{bin,lib,etc}.
Dan
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