[rescue] UNIX packaging

[Michael Still]

On 2/28/06, Nick B. <nick at pelagiris.org> wrote:
> Hah.  That's a joke right?  About half the comercial software I'm familiar
with
> installs itself in /opt, for reasons I've never been able to understand.
>         Nick
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 01:36:10PM -0500, Kevin Loch wrote:
> > Diddn't /opt die a quick and violent death?  Surely people aren't
> > still using that?
> > - Kevin

Uh.. /opt is part of the FHS which is part of the LSB.  /opt is also
defined by other real UNIX standards.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKA
GES


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