Re: [MiNT] MiNT - Made By Internet Distribution

[Michael Schwingen <rincewind@discworld.dascon.de>]

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

/opt may be fine, /usr/local/somewhere too, /usr/opt is not. 

> 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?)

Locally, I use a scheme where local packages are installed in
/usr/local/pkg/<name> (with /usr/local/pkg/<name>/bin etc.), and a shell
script that creates links for a given package that point from /usr/local/bin
to /usr/local/<pkg>/bin etc, and creates an uninstall script that removes
the links.

(the 'pkg' is for historic reasons, since we used that on SunOS before /opt
was common).

I think there is a more sophisticated package that does basically the same,
somewhere in debian or Redhat IIRC.

cu
Michael
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