Indeed, Bruce's own citation at 3.13 states:
"/opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software
packages."
That would preclude a user's data files.
On January 26, 2020, at 11:29 PM, Adrien Monteleone
wrote:
But /opt isn’t for user data files according to that standard. T
But /opt isn’t for user data files according to that standard. The user’s own
data should still be under their /users tree.
For example, you could build LibreOffice and store it in /opt, but your
individual documents would be under /users. (/home in the linux tree)
I’d say the simpler and safer
On 1/26/20 09:00, D wrote:
> And yet, still unanswered is why a user would put their data files into /opt
> in the first place...
Because OSX is under the hood is very similar to *Nix and BSD systems.
Those who are putting their data files under /opt are probably doing so
to follow the Linux Hi
