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Re: /usr/local or /opt? which is better?



Zhao YouBing <zhaoyb@cad.zju.edu.cn> [2003-07-07 13:37]:
> There are some difference anyway, /usr/local is for local group access 
> and /opt can  be made globally sharable,
> but besides that are there any factors more important which can tell me 
> which should be my dest dir when I install some program?

usually, I keep it the following way:

/usr/local  
  for manually configured/compiled standard applications/tools

/opt
  special programs used for particular projects, globally accesible 

Other comments?

wbr,
Lukas
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