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

[Zhao YouBing <zhaoyb@cad.zju.edu.cn>]

Lukas Ruf wrote:

> 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
Many thanks, it's reasonabe. And I found that /opt is in the same level 
as /usr, so it's not the same as /usr/local,
and someone even has /usr/local/opt ant I think that's reasonable too.

One should put in /usr some more "standard"-like tools and programs , 
but maybe there are no very clear rules .

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