/opt is missing

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:06:20 +0200
Markus Schönhaber <ubuntu-users at schoenhaber.de> wrote:

> 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"?

To quote Alan McKinnon from another post in this thread:

<quote> /opt is a mandatory dir according to FHS and it must
be there. </quote>

FHS: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

See http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
and
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES

Peter