On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 12:23, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
I haven't come across packages that install into /opt. For source packages, I use ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/packagename and have "stow" handle the symlinking to /usr/local/bin, etc.
The OpenOffice.org binary tarball defaults to /opt (at least it did in version 1.0)
I've never understood the need for /opt/. Or more precisely, I've never understood the need for /opt/ when you have /usr/local/, and in my travels have yet to find any solid reasoning beyond what seems to be that the first person to create /opt/ didn't know about /usr/local/.
(I'm almost certainly wrong of course, but I still haven't been able to find anything that tells me so with any decent authority.)
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/
/opt : Add-on application software packages /usr/local : Local hierarchy
the way I understand it: if I install some non-debian package (from tarball etc.) it should go into /opt/package-version (or something like that)
the /usr/local is for my own (=admin) stuff, no software that I download someplace else should touch it (unless I ask it to).
I usually install extra software in /opt/package-version and use stow to create links in /usr/local, but I guess installing it somewhere under /usr/local works as well (I just don't think packages should default to that).
erik
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