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What's the difference between opt and local? I thought was for mixin externally provided systems like Homebrew, local is for machine or org-level customization

• kps 8mo ago
  /opt showed up as a place for packaged software, where each package (directory) has its own bin/, lib/, man/, and so on, to keep it self-contained rather than installing its files in the main hierarchy. ~/opt is just a per-user equivalent, analogous to /usr/local vs ~/.local. The advantage of /opt is that multi-file software stays together. The disadvantage is that PATHs get long.