On Friday 23 March 2018 16:33:04 Felix Miata wrote: > William Morder composed on 2018-03-22 13:55 (UTC-0700): > > Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > >> 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. > > Put the things _you_ put in /opt/ instead in /usr/local/, make /usr/local/ > a separate filesystem, and you needn't have that problem, unless maybe > you're an AntiX user. The only things in /opt/ on my systems are things the > package manager decides belong there, typically printer drivers, KDE3, or > LO. I don't choose to put anything there. When I install, the package manager installs these items in that folder. (Seamonkey used to be installed like other packages, but now it is separately maintained on SourceForge; and now it gets installed in /opt. Likewise OpenOffice, now that Apache maintains it separately, is installed there.) My question is whether the package manager will put them there if I create a separate partition for /opt. In any case, little tweaks have got them running better. Another question: Why are program files and folders for Icecat now installed in /usr/lib/icecat - instead of in /home/<USER>/.mozilla/icecat (similar to other Mozilla browsers)? I had to change permissions to get extensions to work, or even to install; but it's not the first place one looks for this stuff. 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
