Simple HowTo

[Craig White]

Ric Moore wrote:
> 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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/opt is where vendor packages are normally installed, generally, but not 
always commercial packages, i.e. BrightStor ArcServe will install there, 
also, Dell's OMSA and the rpms you download from OpenOffice.org

The growth of the number of files in /usr/bin is a testimony to the vast 
array of software available for Fedora.

Craig