Edward Murrell said on Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 09:31:42AM +1300: > I've never understood the need for /opt/. Or more precisely, I've never > understood the need for /opt/ when you have /usr/local/, and in my > travels have yet to find any solid reasoning beyond what seems to be > that the first person to create /opt/ didn't know about /usr/local/. > > (I'm almost certainly wrong of course, but I still haven't been able to > find anything that tells me so with any decent authority.)
/opt is designed for commercial software; the idea is that you can install into /opt/CompanyName/SoftwarePackage, and not worry about conflicts. Of course, this isn't exactly integration with the rest of the OS or anything, but it's a leftover from proprietary Unix, really. It does come in handy, though. M
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