Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy?
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:35:01 -0600, you wrote:
>From personal experience, installing things in /opt/foo and using
>stow to link them to /usr/local sucks in many interesting ways (at
>least on Solaris).
>
>So don't think FHS mandates that because FHS is stupid.
>
I can manually install packages on /mnt and then edit the X menus
to run those programs. There are no functional problems with that
at all.
If FHS did not mandate /usr, it would not be necessary for people
to try the symlinks etc. that you discussed. I do understand that
common libraries need to be stored in a known location. And programs
that need to be in the path should not be scattered over gigabytes of
hard drives. Otherwise, there seems to be no real reason that apt
could not have some sort of configuration that allows installing new
software somewhere besides /usr. I kind of like the C++ model. Explain
clearly how things should be done (oop, no gotos, no globals) but
provide for the possibility that somebody might intelligently have a good
reason for doing things differently. Also it would be nice to be able
to tell apt to download new *deb files somewhere besides /var/archives.
Dselect allowed that before apt came along.
Gleason
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