On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:35:44AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
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.
Debian prefers to leave /opt for the system administrator. Since we have dpkg, there's no need to worry about ease of installation or removal; you should be using the package management tools to do that anyway.
Cheers,
I concede that this is Debians choice in configuration.
Wouldn't it be possible to utilize /opt for big packages (open office, mozilla, KDE, Gnome, Java) and still leave /opt for system administrators?
I kind of like the idea of putting what you need for the basics in /usr and the cool applications in /opt and spread it around a little bit.
I guess there's really no valid reason for going one way or the other but that it's more important to have an agreed to schema when setting up files.
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