UNIX admin wrote: >> Hello, >> Just wondering, where should in your opinion >> self-compiled software be >> installed ? >> FreeBSD has /usr/local >> and there is /opt ? > > There is no "opinion" on this, the engineering specifications are clear: > > /opt is where the binaries must go > /etc/opt is where the app configuration files must go > /var/opt is where the data for the application goes. > > The application MUST be compiled and linked such, that it searches these > directories and/or mountpoints for the respective files, or else you won't be > System V compliant.
I suppose this is valid for an (enterprise) server. At home, I just dump everything into /usr. Then again, most of it are just optimized as hell compiles of newer versions of already installed applications (i.e. huge CPU specific CFLAGS). Just things that conflict land in /opt here, like pth for GnuPG last week, which screws around with pthread. -mg
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