[fhs-discuss] on the /*/local/ hierarchies

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Mon, 16 May 2011 05:09:37 +0200, Martin Bähr
<mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 06:00:50PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> I already have trouble enough understanding why we currently have both
>> /usr/local and /opt. Both appear to be places for 3rd party software,
>> but use different layouts.
> 
> the difference in layouts is exactly the point why both exists.

Good point,... and in /opt the distributor is really fully free in the
layout.

> my personal rule of thumb is: /usr/local for stuff built from source,
> /opt for 3rd party stuff only available as binary.

Is about the same what I proposed above after being inspired by another
poster here :)


Chris.