On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:34:31AM -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:09:07 +1100, Gleason wrote: > > > >If I was you, I would concentrate on ease of upgrade (as mentioned before by someone, apt-get), > > Apt-get is a great tool, however it insists on installing everything in /usr. Which means that it is > difficult to make use of extra hard drives. A couple of points to note here: 1) It's not apt that decides where things get put. It's up to the individual packages - try "dpkg --contents your-favourite.deb" 2) Most things *belong* in /usr. FHS dictates that. 3) Nowadays you should be able to fit your complete install of linux on a single disk. (you may *want* to spread it across multiple disks, but that's another issue) 4) You can always move selected subdirectories (/usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/X11R6, /usr/share) to other disks, either as separate filesystems or symlinks And yes: apt-get is great :-) -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: *** Rince is wagner@schizo.DAINet.de (We have Joey, we have Fun, we have Linux on a Sun) -- Seen on #Debian
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