Re: [PLUG] /usr/local vs. /opt

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

bergman@merctech.com wrote:

>
>
>Sort of. The installation is easy, but you are still likely to end up with a
>huge $PATH or messy symlinks, since there's typically no
>/opt/{bin,lib,include,share,etc} as you'd find under /usr/local, but
>applications install into their own tree, such as /opt/framemaker.
>  
>
I try to avoid that huge $PATH problem by putting all the symlinks to
the key /opt executables in /usr/local.

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