Ubuntu should move all binaries to /usr/bin/

Jeff Hanson jhansonxi at gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 23:42:29 UTC 2011


What annoys me more is the third-party use of both /usr/local and
/opt.  I would rather get rid of /opt.  I consider /usr/local the
proper place for anything not handled by a package manager.

> From: Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals <siegfried at gevatter.com>
> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:52:32 +0100
>
> In case you installed some application manually, it may be in
> /usr/local/bin or somewhere in /opt. This is so you can separate
> distribution stuff from other random stuff.




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