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Nice to see something I've gradually learned about by gut feel summarized. Why do some distributions use /opt a lot while others don't seem to use it at all?
by danielweber 12y ago
Nice to see something I've gradually learned about by gut feel summarized.
Why do some distributions use /opt a lot while others don't seem to use it at all?
- mhurron 12y agoShort answer would be historical reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_filesystem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_filesystem "Contains locally installed software. Originated in System V, which has a package manager that installs software to this directory (one subdirectory per package)." Solaris made extensive use of /opt, that flowed into some Linux packagers. It then fell out of favor as everyone put everything in /usr