Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy?
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:29:59 -0600, you wrote:
>Apt installs there because that's where the FHS
>(http://www.pathname.com/fhs/) says things should go.
Was not disputing that there might be authority behind how
it is done.
>Rather than making it difficult to use extra hard drives, this easily
>allows you to dedicate a partition to /usr, possibly one to /usr/local
>(if you install a lot of stuff that's not under apt's control).
Again, there is only one /usr. If that one is full, and I install a new
hd... /usr/local is used some by other installation methods. I see
that Sylpheed and Forte (java ide) put themselves there. I did not
say it was impossible to use the extra space, just not easy.
Gleason
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