/opt is missing

[Erik Christiansen]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:01:51AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 
> My reading of the FHS is:

...

> /opt is a good place for pre-compiled binaries from 3rd party vendors
> that are independant from the package manager.
> 
> Some distros seem to take the view that /opt is for anything that is
> optional i.e. not installed by default with the base system. SuSE does
> this with KDE IIRC.

While "man hier" says:

/opt   This directory should contain add-on packages that contain static files.

I have to admit I tend to follow the "Some distros", putting stuff like
the Eagle CAD package and Applixware in there. (The latter installs
there by default, IIRC.)

Erik