/opt is missing

[Markus Schönhaber]

Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On 8/16/06, Markus Schönhaber <ubuntu-users at schoenhaber.de> wrote:
> > Peter Garrett wrote:
> > > Nevertheless, /opt should always be present, even if empty!
> >
> > Why?
>
> Because striving for standards compliance is generally considered a good
> thing.

I still don't get the point why the simple presence of an empty directory 
called "/opt" should be of any value.

And could you elaborate a bit to which standard one does comply by 
creating "/opt"?

Reagrds
  mks