This is just an example.
openoffice is installed from .debs that I obtained (I believe) from a non-debian sanctioned location:
deb http://ftp.sk.debian.org/openoffice-debian/ stable main contrib
deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ stable main contrib
'which openoffice' tells me that these packages installed into /usr/bin/openoffice
FHS says that this directory is for "binaries not needed in single user mode".
But then I went over and looked at the /opt which also seemed rather reasonable as a place to put things.
It also seems a heck of a lot easier to manage the installation and (more importantly) the removal of software through the /opt structure.
I am wondering if someone could explain to me why /opt isn't used much if at all and under when circumstances it would be expected to be used, or not.
I have also noticed that a bried test-drive with SuSE indicated that they love putting everything in the world into /opt, but again I don't really understand the reasoning behind it or what the advantages/disadvantages might be.
My guess is that some of this comes down to nfs mounting applications, but I'm not even sure about that.
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