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

[Terry]

On 5/6/05, Ralph Green, Jr. <sfreader at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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

It's not going to cause any trouble, it's just a matter of 
preference, that's all, a method of categorization.

> 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.
> 
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