Re: FHS question

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:35:44AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
>
> > FHS says that this directory is for "binaries not needed in single user 
> > mode".
> > But then I went over and looked at the /opt which also seemed rather 
> > reasonable as a place to put things.
> >
> > It also seems a heck of a lot easier to manage the installation and (more 
> > importantly) the removal of software through the /opt structure.
> >
> > I am wondering if someone could explain to me why /opt isn't used much if 
> > at all and under when circumstances it would be expected to be used, or not.
>
>
> Debian prefers to leave /opt for the system administrator. Since we have
> dpkg, there's no need to worry about ease of installation or removal;
> you should be using the package management tools to do that anyway.
>
> Cheers,

I concede that this is Debians choice in configuration.

Wouldn't it be possible to utilize /opt for big packages (open office, 
mozilla, KDE, Gnome, Java) and still leave /opt for system administrators?

I kind of like the idea of putting what you need for the basics in /usr and 
the cool applications in /opt and spread it around a little bit.

I guess there's really no valid reason for going one way or the other but 
that it's more important to have an agreed to schema when setting up files.

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