On Thursday 22 March 2018 13:36:49 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2018 schrieb William Morder: > > [...] > > Does anybody here make /opt a separate partition? Since so many programs > > use it that are better not to run with admin privileges, it seems better > > not to put /opt in the root partition. But then I wonder if installations > > would go awry for those packages that use /opt. (Not only TDE, but also > > other programs, such as Seamonkey, OpenOffice, etc., use /opt for > > installation.) > > beeing on the root-partition has nothing to do with admin privileges. There is also the problem that, on reinstallation, the /opt folder (and any configurations or modifications) will necessarily be overwritten. I would like to prevent /opt from being overwritten, just as I do with my /home folder. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
