IBM's ThinkPad-Linux support project being dropped

[Michael Hipp]

So put it in /opt. Or put it in /foo or /dep. Just put it somewhere and put 
it there every time. I'm not arguing for a *particular* solution. Just 
*one* solution.

Is there somewhere a compelling argument against standardizing such things. 
I'm willing to be educated.

Michael

On Friday 21 June 2002 11:16 am, dep wrote:
> begin  Michael Hipp's  quote:
> | Ok, perhaps. But how hard is it to say "pick one, any one, and go
> | with it". It's a Jihad because people make it so, not because of
> | some compelling technical reason.
>
> but, you see, there *is* a compelling technical reason. putting it in
> /usr makes life very difficult for the non-weenies who compile their
> own stuff rather than lap up whatever the distribution packages. this
> is because backing up the previous version is extremely difficult,
> and because desktops invlove multiple required packages, if the
> second or third package compile fails though "make install" was done
> on the first one, a broken desktop is the result. which is to say
> that putting desktops in /usr was done for the convenience of red hat
> software, and for no other reason.