File Systems.
Erik Troan
ewt at redhat.com
Wed Mar 22 08:20:50 PST 2000
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Nicholas Petreley wrote:
> Why would it have to be a standard part of the upgrade process to worry
> about symbolic links? Wouldn't the upgrade program simply reference /opt?
> If the user/admin had moved it to /something/opt and linked to it since the
> install process I would think the upgrade program wouldn't care.
Existing Linux system by and large don't have /opt; if we start moving
KDE or GNOME from /usr to /opt, those systems with small / partitions will
break.
Erik
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