I think you are right. Although during my day job (Solaris) we use /opt, 
at home (MDK) I use /usr/local, which had nothing in it apart from top 
level directories after a fresh install. Most addon packages for Solaris 
install into /usr/local too. So I really wish we didn't use /opt at 
work. However sometime a /opt is useful (on both Solaris & MDK) since 
some packages insist upon it. In this case I find a link between /opt 
and /usr/local useful. (The real story on Solaris is much more 
complicated - but I won't bore you with that ;)

Nick.

Thomas Sourmail wrote:

>>Everything I install *out* of my distribution I install on /opt. It's
>>better for 'management'.
>>
>
>Am I wrong or I remember that RH (and therfore Mandrake ?) are not
>touching /usr/local/, in which case you are just as sure everything which
>is there is out of your distribution ?
>



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