/opt is missing

[Alexander Skwar]

· Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com>:

> 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.

Well, well, well - in how far is acrobat7 more "optional" than,
lets say, KDE for *Ubuntu*, ie. not Kubuntu?

Alexander Skwar
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