From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16330 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2004 00:16:01 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 5 Dec 2004 00:16:01 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1Cak4H-0004Ru-0D for arch-gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 00:16:01 +0000 Received: (qmail 21049 invoked by uid 89); 5 Dec 2004 00:15:45 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-user-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29634 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2004 00:15:45 +0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=k7OkUtDBd0RBJvzpIeM7QYN+pIMM9geQFcJ8J2uOOhKlaSvoU/cxEX8w9Ee0+CyFtGUmjlXm4s9oRPQJ5M1+cGSv1x0XR77T35aj0WNWxuXOxvVDPTT66Jc+qdFRr0kX80igoQjqmhod9yt+T+FIfcNWTdfWo4wjG5yqbPb8rbU= Message-ID: Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 17:15:44 -0700 From: Collins Richey Reply-To: Collins Richey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20041204181420.3bdd7c24@snowdrop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041202170711.1cd5ef0d@snowdrop.home> <200412021126.52687.bss03@volumehost.com> <20041202184849.48864ad7@snowdrop.home> <20041203054951.GA5375@bugs.md.com.my> <20041203141946.494a74ec@snowdrop.home> <41B08C09.2050106@gonoph.net> <1102140378.4995.36.camel@procyon.operationaldynamics.com> <20041204181420.3bdd7c24@snowdrop.home> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Local portage repository X-Archives-Salt: c65675ab-b7bf-4667-bda2-8ccd8f522f09 X-Archives-Hash: 37226516cd3057b6512ec3f221ef97c5 On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 18:14:20 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 11:36:18 +0530 Andrew Cowie > 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. -- Collins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list