/opt is missing

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 8/18/06, Alan Mckinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 18:37 +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > While "man hier" says:
> >
> > /opt   This directory should contain add-on packages that contain
> > static files.
> >
> I never saw that definition before, but it does make sense if you think
> about it - 3rd party binaries are usually statically compiled.

I believe static in this case means unchanging as opposed to
statically linked.  The idea being that /opt can be mounted read-only
and any variable data should be kept in /var/opt and /tmp.  I don't
know of many packages that obey this last suggestion, however (of not
keeping variable data in /opt along with the rest of the application).

-- 
Chris

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