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Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody



On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 at 23:33 GMT, Paul Morgan penned:
> 
> In my experience, /opt and /usr/local have slightly different
> functions.  /opt would be used for vendor applications, etc., whereas
> /usr/local would be used for locally built tools, etc.
> 

That seems like a really arbitrary way to choose to split up
executables.  I guess I just don't understand why I as an admin would
care to make that distinction.

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