On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 17:59 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/17/2012 10:39 AM, Alan Rodas wrote: > > Also, there are many other directories that doesn't seem to fulfill > > they original purpose anymore, like /opt (Things in /opt could be > > easily installed in /usr/local for what is seems, is that right or am > > I missing something?). Are there any plans to get rid of this folders? > > AIUI, there are occasional programs (not in the repos) that expect to go > into /opt, so it's just easier to have it there JIC. AIUI, traditionally, packages in /opt get stored as units in subdirectories like /opt/mypackage. /usr/local has a distributed structure like /usr, with lib/, bin/, share/, etc. subdirectories. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Mathematical Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
