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  3. November 2009

Directory structure (was: Why are you on a *nix desktop?)

Dennis Lovelady wrote:
Good thinking, Scott! But I wonder what you do about other directories
(especially /etc) that are pretty much system-wide directories, but may have
stuff necessary for your /usr (or /opt) stuff?

I've never understood the '/opt' directory ... the three distros I've worked with so far (Fedora/Redhat, Slackware {not in a while}, and Ubunut) don't use it directly.

It's only used by some 3rd party packages that have their own installer.

Personally, I would prefer that kind of stuff get installed in /usr/local instead of /opt.

david

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