LSB and FHS (was Re: [Gllug] tar.gz)

[Simon Stewart]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:26:02PM +0000, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> Everything I have that's not in a base install (home directories,
> locally installed software, etc.) goes in /local. Note that I
> used to use /usr/local for this, but too many things abuse that,
> and it became difficult to maintain.

I was under the impression that /opt was the preferred place to put
things now-a-days. Or am I just hopelessly confused. Hang on....

/me checks lsb and fhs 2.2

So, I could well be wrong then: /opt is for "Add-on application
software packages", and /usr/local for hand installed programs. Which
raises the question: why does everything either get dumped in the main
tree or in /usr/local? Surely other than the base system everything
should appear in /opt if installed from a package?

Cheers,

Simon

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