Re: KDE team doesn't like Debian dist.?
Ted Harding wrote:
> In my humble opinion /opt has another very useful and practical function.
>
> You can mount a whole new disk partition on /opt, when your original /usr
> partition is getting full. Since some of the commercial packages not only are
> designed to install under /opt by default, but also are big (~100MB), this is
> useful. Just buy a new HD and mount it on /opt.
>
> Then you can set all the symlinks from /usr you like -- they don't take up much
> space.
I don't mind having things in /opt, /usr2, or whatever. I can even see
the advantages. But I do feel it should be the packaging system that
takes care of making symbolic links, not me. On the SUN it didn't,
which caused a lot of trouble.
Eric Meijer
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