On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 04:06:20PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > (The lack of things like libexec seems like a serious deficit in the > FHS -- it highly unclutters user executable directories. /opt is > likely a religious issue which means trouble but if one anticipates > trouble it is possible to avoid it...)
For what its worth, debian doesn't seem to really use /opt. At least not for debian packages, which tend to put their stuff right in /usr. > I have to learn more about how Debian package tools work -- I'd > appreciate more links to useful reading... I'm still learning, but I have found that http://www.debian.org/devel/ has everything I have wanted to know. The Debian Policy manual is worth reading, and there is more practical documentation on how to make packages there as well. tibbetts
