Re: /opt/gnome? (Newbie-ish question)

["Peter Asboeck"<peter asboeck magnet at>]

Installing packages as /opt/package isn't a question of having
a package tool - it's a question of clean organisation and
programming.

/opt/package can be used on any plattform (Linux, Solaris, ...)

With a single system root (GNOME_SYSTEM_ROOT=/opt/gnome) and
/etc/opt/gnome, /var/opt/gnome every application has clear
knowledge about where to install files. BTW file system standard
2.0 has /opt, /etc/opt, ...

One big benefit of /opt is - you can have multiple versions.

If some path names in GNOME are hard-coded, why is the default
for tarballs /usr/local and SRPMS are installing in /usr, /etc,
..
This means every SRPM must have a patch to fix hard-coded path
names. 

BTW I'm running gnome-0.99.7 with SRPMS patch to /opt/gnome
and Enlightenment-0.15 SRPMS patch to /opt/enlightenment
without any "additional" problems.

ciao,
Peter