Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
I hope I am not off-topic, but one thing that sorta bothers me is that many, if not *most* applications are being placed in /usr/share as if a catchall place? It seems to contain more than 50% of /usr space alone?
The point of /usr/share is supposed to be that you can share it - as a read-only network mount - for many machines. I'm not sure how that plays out in practice or what happens when you install packages on the machines with read-only mounts.
It seems to me, that many applications such as 'games' for example, ought to be in it's own common directory such as /usr/(local/)games so that these (large) applications can be easily symlinked/mounted elsewhere if need be, otherwise it can be bothersome to move, mount, or symlink these otherwise potentially large applications? I wonder what the point is of having /usr/games, /usr/local if no one seems to use these otherwise mostly empty directories?
/usr/local is for your own source installs, so as not to conflict with packaged installs.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
