I tend to put certain things in /usr/local like GNU software and commercial software goes in /opt. I guess this stems from my years of Solaris use. Solaris usually puts new software packages in /opt so I just got use to it...it's what /opt is for or so I am told. just my 0.02 "Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
"Ian M. Moore" wrote:
genz1968@mtu-net.ru writes:
where you guys installing new programs that your download off the net? I would like to keep mine in one area, but haven't a clue where is a good place.
I usually put my new stuff in /opt which is on it's own partition.
Why do you use /opt rather than /local? If you use /local for something else, how do you distinguish between stuff that goes in /local and stuff that goes in /opt?
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