Red Hat and Fedora RPMS installed in /opt?

[Renaud Deraison]

On Dec 13, 2005, at 11:36, twebster at blackhillscorp.com wrote:

>
> This may sound like a personal complaint but I think others may  
> have a similar opinion to my own.  Because we have standardized on  
> Red Hat and Fedora Linux for our Linux servers/desktops we also  
> like to use the file structure "standards" that are in Red Hat and  
> Fedora.  That is "official" packages are installed in /usr/ and  
> custom compile or other custom software is installed in /usr/local.

Using /opt respects the file system hierachy standard :

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1- 
filesystem-fhs.html#S3-FILESYSTEM-OPT


Wether this is a *good* standard or not is another discussion, but  
that's the way things are :)


				-- Renaud