partition size

[Steve Stavropoulos]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 v13 at priest.com wrote:

> On Tuesday 25 September 2001 20:36, Steve Stavropoulos wrote:
> >  Ta normal distro sto /opt den bazoun TIPOTA. As afhsoume thn kakh
> > klhronomia twn commercial Unices pou sto /opt exoun oles tis efarmoges kai
> > as perasoume epitelous mprosta antika8istwntas to /opt me to /usr/local.
> >
>  Mporeis na moy peis poy to eides ayto gia to /opt? Me endiaferei afantasta
> giati sto fhs 2.2 (nai pali ayto) leei:
>
>        The use of /opt for add-on software is a well-established practice in

add-on software? intersting. Fantazomai to gnome kai to KDE ta 8ewreis
add-ons kai oxi meros tou distro sou.


>        the UNIX community.  The System V Application Binary Interface [AT&T
>        1990], based on the System V Interface Definition (Third Edition),
>        provides for an /opt structure very similar to the one defined here.
>
>        The Intel Binary Compatibility Standard v. 2 (iBCS2) also provides a
>        similar structure for /opt.
>
>        Generally, all data required to support a package on a system must be
>        present within /opt/<package>, including files intended to be copied
>        into /etc/opt/<package> and /var/opt/<package> as well as reserved
>        directories in /opt.
>

H allh apopsh leei oti ola ta paketa pou einai meros tou distro sou, ola
ta paketa pou 8a h8eles na exeis se ola ta PCia sou, ola ta basika kai
ligotero basika paketa na mpainoun sto /usr opou mporeis na ta kaneis poly
eykola export opou 8es. Twra an 8es kapoio paketo na to exeis mono LOCAL
to bazeis sto /usr/local. Gia to /opt den blepw xrhsh ektos apo to na
bazeis optional packages (egw sto diko mou systhma den exw kanena tetoio
pou na 8elw na to 3exwrisw apo ta alla).