/opt is missing

[Al Gordon]

On 8/17/06, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> On Do, 2006-08-17 at 11:50 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> ltsp creates its client chroots in /opt/ltsp by default in ubuntu ;)

Oli is 100% correct here.  However, ltsp also creates /opt when it is
installed via synaptic or apt, if /opt does not already exist.

I guess that if Ubuntu wants to claim that it follows the Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard, then it should include /opt by default, even if
it's empty.  The real question should be: are they making that claim?
If they are, the answer is easy.  If not, it doesn't really matter so
much, does it?

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  -- AL --