/opt is missing

[Michael Poole]

Markus Schönhaber writes:

> 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"?

FHS 2.3 (the "Requirements" section of chapter 3).

Michael Poole