Am 15. Oct, 2003 schw=E4tzte Austin Godber so:

> As I recall UNIX vendors (I don't know who I mean by that) at one time ag=
reed

Sun and Sun.

> that they would all install their software in /opt/ so maybe the layout f=
or
> Linux looks like:
>
> 1) Distro managed software (wherever the package maintainer determines is=
 best)
> 2) Things you compile on your own (/usr/local)
> 3) Third party, non distro maintained apps (/opt)
>
> People tend not to use opt though ... well ... that may not be true ... i=
t may
> be that third party apps cost money and I typically try to avoid spending=
 that.

KDE and StarOffice used to insist on it. Generally, it seems, Free Software
packages that use /opt are on some holy war to move everything to /opt and
hard code everything.

Let the distros, LSB and FHS decide where things should go.

It would be nice if default compiles would go to /usr/local with overrides
to put in / if the person compiling it wants.

ciao,

der.hans
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