Author: Chris Gehlker Date: Subject: the creature from the black lagoon.... or dealing with OS creep
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?
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