Re: [MiNT] MiNT - Made By Internet Distribution

["Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 12:12:25AM +0200, Michael Schwingen wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 09:57:44AM +0300, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
> > > > /usr/opt/thing  <- when used with Geminit, otherwise in /usr/local/opt
> > > 
> > > Um - no. Nothing that comes as a packaged file which belongs to the
> > > distribution should touch /usr/local - that is for things which I install
> > > locally, outside the scope of the distribution.
> > 
> > Except, Thing _is_ a user-installed package! ;-)
> 
> In that case, it *always* belongs in /usr/local, and not in /usr/opt.

Many third-party software installs in /opt.  Why not Thing?

But I must admit that I really don't like the idea of the /opt directory
at all, at least the way it is used on HP-SUX: Every precompiled software
package you get installs in /opt and then you have to set a hell of a lot
of environment variables to get it to work (and that's not trivial due to
some nasty bugs, he, you know /etc/PATH?)

I still favor my /usr/GEM/bin solution.  The bin subdirectory could either
contain symbolic links or start-up scripts for the GEM applications you
want to start from the shell.

Ciao

Guido
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