/opt is missing

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 8/17/06, Alan Mckinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 18:48 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > · enopepsoo <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org>:
> >
> > > For interests sake, what in Ubuntu uses /opt?
> >
> > Google Earth.
>
> Hah! I beat you :-)
>
> gentoo ~ # ll /mnt/ubuntu/opt/
> total 3
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root   root    248 Jul 17 14:56 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 23 root   root    696 Jul 14 21:21 ../
> drwxrwxr-x  6 daemon daemon  144 May 21  2004 acrobat5/
> drwxr-xr-x  6 root   root    144 Jul 14 23:21 acrobat7/
> drwxr-xr-x  9 root   root   2320 Jul  9 10:40 google-earth/
> drwxr-xr-x  7 root   root    352 Dec  7  2004 jre1.5.0_01/
> drwxr-sr-x 11 root   root    432 Jul 14 22:50 realplayer/
> drwxr-xr-x 19   1002   1002  864 Jul 12 10:08 sybase/

To be clear, nothing "in Ubuntu" uses /opt, it's there for "optional
software" either from the vendor or 3rd parties.  All the software
listed here is not "part of Ubuntu" but are large optionally installed
software packages.

-- 
Chris

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