Thread: Optification confusion
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jebba is offline jebba
2009-12-22 , 22:04
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#4
Some ramblings (i'm tired, sry for lack of clarity):

Code:
/etc/opt : Configuration files for /opt
Purpose

Host-specific configuration files for add-on application software packages must be installed within the directory /etc/opt/<subdir>, where <subdir> is the name of the subtree in /opt where the static data from that package is stored.

We should probably have by default a:

Code:
ln -s /opt/etc /etc/opt

Since /opt packages are supposed to put their configs in /etc, but that could make the root filesystem grow a lot too, depending. In the case of the wonderful asterisk, the /etc files are 600k alone!

maemo-optify will only do files greater than 2k, but this isn't so great in all cases. Asterisk, for example, has a jillion little sound files, so if it used maemo-optify, it would still write like 1M to /.


Using maemo-optify in debian/rules doesn't use the /opt/maemo subdir, but using maemo-optify-deb does.


I just wish we could completely ditch the /opt thing entirely. sigh.

-Jeff
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