Chris Gehlker wrote:
> Youse guys are all woosies! Consider that MacOS has:
> 1) A place for programs that Apple manages. Software Update will
> happily stomp all over this.
> 2) Another place for stuff you compile yourself.
> 3) A third place were apt-get puts programs
> 4) Yet another place where ordinary users are encouraged to install
> programs by drag-and-drop.
> 5) Some overlap between 1 and 4
...
> Now my ideal Linux setup would follow the original Unix model and only
> put programs absolutely essential to operation of the machine in places
> like /bin or /sbin. Everything else would go under /usr/local/compiled
> or /usr/local/apt-gotten depending.
>
> Actual Linux is not that far from the ideal.
As I recall UNIX vendors (I don't know who I mean by that) at one time agreed
that they would all install their software in /opt/ so maybe the layout for
Linux looks like:
1) Distro managed software (wherever the package maintainer determines is best)
2) Things you compile on your own (/usr/local)
3) Third party, non distro maintained apps (/opt)
People tend not to use opt though ... well ... that may not be true ... it may
be that third party apps cost money and I typically try to avoid spending that.
Austin
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