On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 09:00 AM, Austin Godber wrote:

> As I recall UNIX vendors (I don't know who I mean by that) at one time 
> agreed that they would all install their software in /opt/ so maybe 
> the layout for Linux looks like:
>
> 1) Distro managed software (wherever the package maintainer determines 
> is best)
> 2) Things you compile on your own (/usr/local)
> 3) Third party, non distro maintained apps (/opt)
>
> People tend not to use opt though ... well ... that may not be true 
> ... it may be that third party apps cost money and I typically try to 
> avoid spending that.

Well, we have a least one poster from a company that sells games. Do 
you install in /opt? Has anyone ever seen anything in /opt?