On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:20:10PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Quick question on administration: > > what exactly is the best way to deal with locally installed software > from source under the /usr/local/ or /opt/ tree? > > I use GNU stow, but never actually saw anyone suggesting this to be > *the* method. How do you guys best deal with this? > > Comments anyone? > > Regards > Sven > -- > Have you rebooted your NT box today?
It's really up to you. We run Solaris at work, and usually all 3rd party Solaris packages will install under /opt. However, when we install packages from the net, like perl, vim, etc, they generally are installed under /usr/local. I haven't seen much of a use for /opt under linux, but opinions vary ;) Mike -- Michael Merten System Support Engineer Raytheon Technical Services Company Joint Readiness Training Center Fort Polk, Louisiana
