28 Nov
2003
28 Nov
'03
10:49 p.m.
On Friday 28 November 2003 17:27, Paul Davis wrote:
Oh, my apologies for misreading.
I think the only sane thing about it is that
-lets you keep track of what's in your system and where did it came from
without an extra database of the package management system
-lets you easily install/switch between software versions
Juan Linietsky
(btw my apologies also for sending the message direct, this new kmail is quite
confusing)
as paul says,
opt/ is a fine solution for this, as everything just
symlinks, but it's sad that it never took off.
i don't think its a fine solution. i never saw anything useful about
/opt at all. it just created a *third* possible install location.