Re: How do you install Backdown's JVM on iPaq?

Holger Schurig writes:
> I actually never understood why people want to have /opt, isn't rpm,
> deb and ipk suitable to separate various apps from each other?

It's not separating the files. It's preventing namespace collision.
It's the ability to find your configuration files regardless of
whether your package came with the system (/usr/...) or was compiled
and installed by the user (/usr/local/...). It's the ability to
answer someone's question by saying "Do this:

echo '120' >/var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote
svc -t /service/qmail
tail --follow /service/qmail/log/main/current

and watch for the remote concurrency to increase to 120."

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