Chris Gehlker wrote:
>> As I recall UNIX vendors (I don't know who I mean by that) at one time 
>> agreed that they would all install their software in /opt/ so maybe 
>> the layout for Linux looks like:
> 
> Well, we have a least one poster from a company that sells games. Do you 
> install in /opt? Has anyone ever seen anything in /opt?

Yeah, I think I read in some README a criticism about everyone having agreed 
(again, I don't know who everyone is) to use /opt and then no one used it. 
Well, except that package :)

Here's seomthing:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.12.html
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.9.html

_shrug_ I dunno really the difference between /usr/local and /opt ... I guess if 
its a third party precompiled installation mechanism then it should go to /opt. 
  Otherwise if we are doing ./configure; make; make install it ought to go to 
/usr/local

Maybe it never really took off ... and it was only agreed upon buy "that guy."

Austin