Subject: Re: /opt (NOT!)
To: Rob Healey <rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <Hubert.Feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
List: amiga
Date: 09/12/1994 16:43:00
> I agree with Ty, we should adopt the FreeBSD pkg_* system and
> then at install time we can decide where we like the package
> to be; /usr/local? /opt? /foo? /fork_svr4? Then all the BSD
> systems can be radically different from each other, in the TRUE
> BSD tradition, and it won't matter!
>
> Everybody happy?
Sounds great. :-)
Only one question: Most programs demand hard-coded paths, e.g. Emacs. How does
one arrange to install such programs in any directory? The only thing I can
imagine is to add an additional symlink (e.g. when /opt is hardcoded and you
want to install in /usr/local, ln -s /usr/local /opt).
Hubert
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