Re: Simple HowTo

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Daniel B. Thurman wrote:

I hope I am not off-topic, but one thing that sorta bothers
me is that many, if not *most* applications are being placed
in /usr/share as if a catchall place?  It seems to contain more
than 50% of /usr space alone?

The point of /usr/share is supposed to be that you can share it - as a read-only network mount - for many machines. I'm not sure how that plays out in practice or what happens when you install packages on the machines with read-only mounts.

It seems to me, that many applications such as 'games' for example,
ought to be in it's own common directory such as /usr/(local/)games
so that these (large) applications can be easily symlinked/mounted
elsewhere if need be, otherwise it can be bothersome to move, mount,
or symlink these otherwise potentially large applications?

I wonder what the point is of having /usr/games, /usr/local if
no one seems to use these otherwise mostly empty directories?

/usr/local is for your own source installs, so as not to conflict with packaged installs.

--
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx

--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora News]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [SSH]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Centos]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Tux]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Fedora Universal Network Connector]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux