On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 22:05 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Robin Laing wrote: > >> I've heard of the project before, but can't put my finger on > >> anything that the > >> current version provides that couldn't have been done with backwards > >> compatibility as Solaris has done. Instead we've had a decade of slow > >> and painful changes to new and more or less arbitrary locations. > >> (/opt is > >> in one year, /srv the next...) > >> > > > > This is an interesting issue as my upgrade to FC6 pointed out an issue > > with standards. Where I work, we use some NFS mounts and part of that > > is what is mounted in /opt. The powers in charge have decided that > > /opt is now a network mount. Oops, I had installed my local programs > > into /opt as I have done and been told to for ages and even the FHS > > isn't clear. > > > I think /opt was originally conceived as a place for vendor or third > party packages > that were not part of the base distribution. Caldera was big on third party large packages and /opt was the official place to put them. The theory was that an upgrade would by-pass /opt and not break that which was fixed. Smart thinking, I thought. I use it today. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
