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Re: Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy?



On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:34:45 +0000, you wrote:

>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

Hmm, yes I can move those directories and replace them with links or
just mount them to appropriate dirs under /usr.  Did not think of that.
But still, apt has this little flaw it seems to me.  

Gleason



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