[linux-audio-dev] Tracker

[Roger Larsson]

On Friday 28 November 2003 21.27, Paul Davis wrote:
> >as paul says, opt/ is a fine solution for this, as everything just
> > symlinks, but it's sad that it never took off.
>
> i don't think its a fine solution. i never saw anything useful about
> /opt at all. it just created a *third* possible install location.
>

The alternative for distributions is to put big packages with lots of
executables under /usr since /usr/local is mine (or the local administrators)

But executables should really end up in /usr/bin, non architecture specific 
files in /usr/share - but then you need to handle several versions too...

In this situation I do not mind /opt ...

/RogerL

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Roger Larsson
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