[NTLUG:Discuss] Sysadmin type question: Where should programs go?

[Ralph Green, Jr.]

Chris,
  How do you decide what is large and what is
wrong with using /opt?  What kind of trouble
might this cause?  I would normally use /usr/local
for something like an email program.  Textmaker,
from softmaker shows /opt as the first choice of
where to install their package.  Textmaker is not
that large a package, and I figured they must know
something when they made that suggestion.  Are you
drawing the line because textmaker is distributed
as binaries and thunderbird may well be compiled
for the system?
Good day,
Ralph

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 15:45 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> Don't use /opt.  /opt really is to be used by large
> vendor supplied packages.  For example IF mozilla.org wants
> ..
> local/site assembled/distributed packages.  Use /usr/local
> or something else.