On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 02:07 -0700, Tomas Bodzar wrote:
> If you want to have garbage on your disk then use another OS. 
> Packaging systems like IPS and others are here to have consistent hierarchy 
> of installed packages on your system for easy maintenance, easy writing of 
> apps from third vendors and so on.
> 
> If you are installing some app which is not in repositories then there is a 
> possibility that you can choose where to install it (like with RealPlayer). 
> But anyway, recommended directory is /opt . I can't find similar man page on 
> OpenSolaris 
> (maybe it's thanks to ZFS filesystem which is totally different then others 
> on Unix or 
> Win platform) but you can get idea here 
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hier&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html
>  or in similar pages on Linux and so on.

This should provide the necessary info:
$ man filesystem

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