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From: David Combs on 17 Jun 2008 00:10
In article <6a43knF34u146U1(a)mid.individual.net>,
Ian Collins <ian-news(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>Dave wrote:
>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>
>>> /usr/local is not just "hardly used on Solaris"! At least in modern
>>> versions of Solaris it is not part of the O/S at all.
>>
>> Agreed.
>>
>>> This fact has not, of course, prevented people from creating
>>> /usr/local. It's a bad idea since /usr is part of the O/S and is
>>> subject to removal or replacement by any O/S upgrade. It is
>>> recommended that /opt/local be used for things that are not part of
>>> the O/S.
>>
>> The fact is a lot of software wants to run in /usr/local - virtually
>> everything on Sunfreeware for example.
>
>Which is one reason to prefer packages from Blastwave!

Please explain what Blastwave does?
>
>--
>Ian Collins.




David



From: Richard B. Gilbert on 17 Jun 2008 00:18
David Combs wrote:
> In article <6a43knF34u146U1(a)mid.individual.net>,
> Ian Collins <ian-news(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Dave wrote:
>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>
>>>> /usr/local is not just "hardly used on Solaris"! At least in modern
>>>> versions of Solaris it is not part of the O/S at all.
>>> Agreed.
>>>
>>>> This fact has not, of course, prevented people from creating
>>>> /usr/local. It's a bad idea since /usr is part of the O/S and is
>>>> subject to removal or replacement by any O/S upgrade. It is
>>>> recommended that /opt/local be used for things that are not part of
>>>> the O/S.
>>> The fact is a lot of software wants to run in /usr/local - virtually
>>> everything on Sunfreeware for example.
>> Which is one reason to prefer packages from Blastwave!
>
> Please explain what Blastwave does?

Blastwave distributes software built for Solaris. It's similar to
Sunfreeware but it builds software to run from /opt....
From: AGT on 17 Jun 2008 11:26
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:18:30 -0400, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> David Combs the master at reviving long dead threads wrote:

>> In article <6a43knF34u146U1(a)mid.individual.net>,
>> Ian Collins <ian-news(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dave wrote:
>>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>>> /usr/local is not just "hardly used on Solaris"! At least in modern
>>>>> versions of Solaris it is not part of the O/S at all.
>>>> Agreed.
>>>>> This fact has not, of course, prevented people from creating
>>>>> /usr/local. It's a bad idea since /usr is part of the O/S and is
>>>>> subject to removal or replacement by any O/S upgrade. It is
>>>>> recommended that /opt/local be used for things that are not part of
>>>>> the O/S.
>>>> The fact is a lot of software wants to run in /usr/local - virtually
>>>> everything on Sunfreeware for example.
>>> Which is one reason to prefer packages from Blastwave!
>> Please explain what Blastwave does?

What do you mean "does"?

> Blastwave distributes software built for Solaris. It's similar to
> Sunfreeware but it builds software to run from /opt....

Not to say that Blastwave does not have warts of its own but
its a better place for newbie types - which is why they dont
go there of course... ; >


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