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

/opt has actually been around for a while and is well established in older
unix systems. In my mind /opt is where I tend to find proprietary software,
and /usr/local tends to be open source installed software. A good place to
start looking at where all of this comes from is the FHS documents. FHS was
never really picked up as a standard, but it does explain where alot of
these locations came from over the years.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/


On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:48 PM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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