Re: Where to install to
- From: Tomas Ogren <stric ing umu se>
- To: Charles Collicutt <charles collicutt demon co uk>
- Cc: Gleef <dzol virtual-yellow com>, gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Where to install to
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 02:49:08 +0100
On 16 December, 1998 - Charles Collicutt sent me these 0.9K bytes:
> 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 :)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 6 1997 /opt -> /usr/opt/
Problem solved. 8)
/Tomas
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Tomas Ögren, stric@ing.umu.se, http://www.ing.umu.se/~stric/
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