Re: [expert] /opt

[AG]

On Sat, 06 May 2000, Ted Wager wrote:

| Hi...
|       I see quite a lot of mail about kde files being in /opt...On all three
| distros I am using /opt is empty....Wondered why ?? 

Packaged distros tend to relocate KDE (and anything else) to /usr.  If you 
compile your own KDE from the sources, it defaults to /opt.  /opt is
traditionally for commercial or OPTional software.  Just as /usr/local is
traditionally for software/data unique to that machine.