Yeah, but since /opt isn't always created by default on all systems, I don't think it's that big a deal. You can almost always count on /usr/local being there.

Yeah, but since /opt isn't always created by default on all systems, I don't think it's that big a deal. You can almost always count on /usr/local being there. As long as they don't go and dump stuff in /{bin,lib} or /usr/{bin,lib}.