At 01:55 +0000 1999-01-12, Jules Bean wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:Why not /opt? Its established practice in UNIX and is part of the FHS standard. All the other suggestions would not follow FHS.Because /opt is to be left clear for third-party packages, not used by the OS packagers (us!).
The word "third-party" does not appear in the FHS WRT /opt, it simply says "add-on packages".
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