Simple HowTo

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 11:41 -0800, Aldo Foot wrote:
> 
>         I hope I am not off-topic, but one thing that sorta bothers
>         me is that many, if not *most* applications are being placed 
>         in /usr/share as if a catchall place?  It seems to contain
>         more
>         than 50% of /usr space alone?
>         
>         It seems to me, that many applications such as 'games' for
>         example,
>         ought to be in it's own common directory such
>         as /usr/(local/)games 
>         so that these (large) applications can be easily
>         symlinked/mounted
>         elsewhere if need be, otherwise it can be bothersome to move,
>         mount,
>         or symlink these otherwise potentially large applications?
>         
>         I wonder what the point is of having /usr/games, /usr/local
>         if 
>         no one seems to use these otherwise mostly empty directories?
>         
>         I seem to think it might be an added bonus giving the
>         installer
>         the choice as to where to install their application(s)?
>         
>         Just wondering.

Me too. /opt appears to be not used at all. Packages like OO used to
live there, and /usr/bin is REALLY crowded nowadays since the use
of /usr/X11/bin got canceled. I'm wondering too. Ric

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