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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