Re: Where to install to



On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Gleef wrote:
> The biggest benefit of installing in /opt/gnome allows all of the GNOME
> stuff gets put together in one place, without cluttering up the other
> things you need to manage in /usr/local.  You can easily add or remove
> GNOME to paths, ld.so.conf, etc without harming any other programs.
> 
> Furthermore, once GNOME has full /opt support (i.e. /etc/opt/gnome rather
[SNIP]

Thanks. I have a 2GB partition mounted at /usr while the partition
mounted at / is only about 300MB. I'll just put everything in
/usr/local/gnome for now I think... once I can eventually stop using Win95
I can wipe that partition (~1.5GB) and use it for linux too - mounted at
/opt perhaps :)

-- 
Charles



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