24 Mar
2018
24 Mar
'18
4:04 a.m.
On Friday 23 March 2018 16:33:04 Felix Miata wrote:
William Morder composed on 2018-03-22 13:55
(UTC-0700):
I don't choose to put anything there. When I install, the package manager
installs these items in that folder. (Seamonkey used to be installed like
other packages, but now it is separately maintained on SourceForge; and now
it gets installed in /opt. Likewise OpenOffice, now that Apache maintains it
separately, is installed there.)
My question is whether the package manager will put them there if I create a
separate partition for /opt. In any case, little tweaks have got them running
better.
Another question: Why are program files and folders for Icecat now installed
in /usr/lib/icecat - instead of in /home/<USER>/.mozilla/icecat (similar to
other Mozilla browsers)? I had to change permissions to get extensions to
work, or even to install; but it's not the first place one looks for this
stuff.
Bill
Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Put the things _you_ put in /opt/ instead in /usr/local/, make /usr/local/
a separate filesystem, and you needn't have that problem, unless maybe
you're an AntiX user. The only things in /opt/ on my systems are things the
package manager decides belong there, typically printer drivers, KDE3, or
LO. beeing on the root-partition has nothing to do
with admin privileges.
There is also the problem that, on reinstallation, the /opt folder (and
any configurations or modifications) will necessarily be overwritten. I
would like to prevent /opt from being overwritten, just as I do with my
/home folder.