On 23-Dec-98 Adam D. McKenna wrote:
> How about putting qmail (or at least the binaries) in /opt/local/qmail or
> /usr/local/qmail? Apache has recently changed to /usr/local/apache for its
> ServerRoot directory, and I personally like this method. I have recently
> begun configuring most software I install to use /opt/local (which I have
> /usr/local/ symlinked to.)
I think he answers that here:
>:More and more systems are being shipped with /opt, where each package is
>:expected to have its own directory structure. Unfortunately, /opt is
>:normally shared among hosts with the same architecture, like /usr;
>:there's no place for machine-specific package directory structures.
These two are often shared between machines, /var is not.
Vince.
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