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Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 17:15:44 -0700
From: Collins Richey <crichey@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Local portage repository
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On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 18:14:20 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 11:36:18 +0530 Andrew Cowie
> <andrew@operationaldynamics.com> wrote:
> | I would refine that, however, to /opt being a place where things
> | outside of package control are permitted [my personal view, now FHS or
> | Gentoo policy or anything] whereas anything going into /usr MUST be
> | under the OS's discipline.
> |
> | For instance, I untar the binary blob I get from download.eclipse.org
> | in out in /opt/eclipse, that sort of thing.
>
> Guess I might as well explain Gentoo policy on this.
>
> /usr is for portage-installed apps. Don't install your own things with
> --prefix=/usr, portage is totally entitled to clobber them as it sees
> fit.
>
> /usr/local is for user-installed apps. Portage-installed apps won't
> touch this.
>
> /opt is used by portage for some packages which are not built from
> source (typically packages which come in foo and foo-bin variants).
> There are certain developers who want this behaviour changed (or better
> yet, -bin packages removed) :)
>
Agreed, except for removing the -bin packages. OTOH, Ciaran, this
doesn't quite explain your regard for /opt as an abomination.
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Collins
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