Chris Waters <xtifr@dsp.net> writes: >> Distributions may install software in /opt, but > Ick -- we may be allowed to do so, but we're not gonna, not if I and > many many others have anything to say about it. :-) The primary reason distributions are permitted to install software in /opt is that some commercial software may come hard-coded that way. Given the DFSG, that should never apply to Debian. Dan