Ric Moore wrote:
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 11:41 -0800, Aldo Foot 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?
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?
I seem to think it might be an added bonus giving the
installer
the choice as to where to install their application(s)?
Just wondering.
Me too. /opt appears to be not used at all. Packages like OO used to
live there, and /usr/bin is REALLY crowded nowadays since the use
of /usr/X11/bin got canceled. I'm wondering too. Ric
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/opt is where vendor packages are normally installed, generally, but not
always commercial packages, i.e. BrightStor ArcServe will install there,
also, Dell's OMSA and the rpms you download from OpenOffice.org
The growth of the number of files in /usr/bin is a testimony to the vast
array of software available for Fedora.
Craig
