[xubuntu-users] shell tools

Peter Flynn peter at silmaril.ie
Tue Jan 10 21:48:33 UTC 2017


> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:06 AM, Ulli Horlacher
>     SysV UNIX

On 01/10/2017 12:17 PM, Benjamin P. August wrote:
> In some worlds it was /opt and others it was /usr/local that got used
> for extra packages. 
> But Solaris (SysV based) used /opt, and once upon a time it was the #1
> proprietary UNIX. 

That would explain it. I stuck with SunOS 4.1.3 when Solaris appeared,
so I missed /opt.

> It is a good idea. You can place an optional software package in a
> single directory and do not have to spread it over /etc /usr/bin /lib
> ...

The idea has merit but the name is bad.
What I said: call things what they are, not what imagination offers.
Calling it /apps might have been a better idea, but it's too late now,
just another ill-considered name that needs better documenting.

///Peter






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