on Sat, Apr 13, 2002, martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> it seems that these software packages should install into
> /opt/{open,s}office to keep the system in accordance with the FHS.
> however, there's something deep inside me speaking against /opt at the
> top of the filesystem hierarchy. i know it's a standard but i don't
> like it as i believe that these packages *should* really sit under
> /usr/local. but /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/apps are also wrong.

I create a symlink for /opt pointing to /usr/local (or sometimes
/usr/local/opt).

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