A modest proposal #1: /opt

[Charles Wilson]

Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>In certain ***RARE*** cases, I believe that a /opt/<package>/ heirarchy
>>-- with the associated /etc/opt/ and /var/opt/ areas -- is a useful and
>>necessary expansion of the official cygwin packaging standard.
> 
> 
> This sounds like it would map pretty well to:
> 
> /opt/<package>/ -> c:\Program Files\<package>\ (CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES)
> /var/opt/<package>/ -> C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local
> Settings\Application Data\<package>\ (CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA)
> /etc/opt/<package>/ -> c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
> Data\<package>\ (CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA)
> 
> Hmmm... that /var one doesn't feel right....

Please let's stay in the unix world.  If you want to map various /opt/ 
subdirs to C:\Progra~1\packag~1\... you're welcome to do so on your 
machine, but for the purposes of this discussion, let's pretend that 
cygwin is a *UNIX* environment that runs under windows.

Oh, right...

--Chuck