On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:06:42PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > one of my main gripes with SuSE is the amount of crap they put under > /opt... And a source of pride for the suse followers. Gee KDE in /opt is so COOL :) There is a guy on linuxplanet that never, ever forgets to mention this "feature" of suse. > so if you want to keep your / partition small, you end up having to > either install less stuff at first, get to a shell and symlink /opt to > /usr/opt, then install the rest; or just make a separate /opt partition and > deal with repartitioning space later. > in short; /opt is system applications and files, so they ought to go > somewhere under /usr like the rest of the system files. well... otoh if I put it in /usr/local, it gets my environment variables so much longer :) florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011024/581e3fa7/attachment.pgp