On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 12:23, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
I haven't come across packages that install into /opt. For source
packages, I use ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/packagename
and have "stow" handle the symlinking to /usr/local/bin, etc.
The OpenOffice.org binary tarball defaults to /opt (at least it did
in version 1.0)
I've never understood the need for /opt/. Or more precisely, I've never
understood the need for /opt/ when you have /usr/local/, and in my
travels have yet to find any solid reasoning beyond what seems to be
that the first person to create /opt/ didn't know about /usr/local/.
(I'm almost certainly wrong of course, but I still haven't been able to
find anything that tells me so with any decent authority.)