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Re: FHS 3.8: /opt/<package>/



Sidestepping the issue of whether /opt is ``a good thing''.
Sun, for example, uses a vendor specific prefix to the subdirectories
under /opt, so the Workshop compiler lives in
	/opt/SUNWspro
We could recommend such an approach.
regards
Andrew

On Feb 15,  9:41pm in "Re: FHS 3.8:  /opt/<", Alan Cox wrote:
> > How does one resolve /opt conflicts between similar packages being released
> > from separate sources?    What does one do if there are two or more java,
> > cc, etc?
>
> Please don't use /opt. It makes your packages hard to use in a networked
> environment.
>


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