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On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 18:14:20 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 11:36:18 +0530 Andrew Cowie |
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> <andrew@×××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> | I would refine that, however, to /opt being a place where things |
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> | outside of package control are permitted [my personal view, now FHS or |
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> | Gentoo policy or anything] whereas anything going into /usr MUST be |
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> | under the OS's discipline. |
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> | For instance, I untar the binary blob I get from download.eclipse.org |
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> | in out in /opt/eclipse, that sort of thing. |
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> Guess I might as well explain Gentoo policy on this. |
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> /usr is for portage-installed apps. Don't install your own things with |
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> --prefix=/usr, portage is totally entitled to clobber them as it sees |
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> fit. |
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> /usr/local is for user-installed apps. Portage-installed apps won't |
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> touch this. |
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> /opt is used by portage for some packages which are not built from |
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> source (typically packages which come in foo and foo-bin variants). |
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> There are certain developers who want this behaviour changed (or better |
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> yet, -bin packages removed) :) |
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Agreed, except for removing the -bin packages. OTOH, Ciaran, this |
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doesn't quite explain your regard for /opt as an abomination. |
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