On Friday 28 November 2003 21.27, Paul Davis wrote: > >as paul says, opt/ is a fine solution for this, as everything just > > symlinks, but it's sad that it never took off. > > i don't think its a fine solution. i never saw anything useful about > /opt at all. it just created a *third* possible install location. >
The alternative for distributions is to put big packages with lots of executables under /usr since /usr/local is mine (or the local administrators) But executables should really end up in /usr/bin, non architecture specific files in /usr/share - but then you need to handle several versions too... In this situation I do not mind /opt ... /RogerL -- Roger Larsson Skellefte� Sweden
