From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 4 01:27:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA14919 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 01:27:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from interntk.kada.lt ([195.22.170.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA14914 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 01:27:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dovydas@kada.lt) Received: from intrantk.kada.lan ([10.254.254.2]) by interntk.kada.lt with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id 1HNT3D1J; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:24:23 +0100 Received: from kada.lt (10.254.254.25 [10.254.254.25]) by intrantk.kada.lan with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id 1H2F32Z2; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:22:55 +0100 Message-ID: <36B97663.AA051F13@kada.lt> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 10:28:51 +0000 From: Dovydas Kulvinskas X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Having an /opt partition References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello /opt partition is under our Alpha's Digital unix. It's an instalation directory for our Magneto Optic disk 2.3GB. Dovydas Mike Meyer wrote: > > I've only seen it on Solaris systems. Seems to be their answer to > having a place for optional packages. Of course, there's also a > /usr/opt as well. > > I can't see much point in doing it. It'd have been nice if the > packages/ports collections had built to /usr/opt so that /usr/local > could be used for things that were local-local, instead of > freebsd-local, but it's a bit late for that. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Loan-department manager: "There isn't any fine print. At these interest rates, we don't need it." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message