[Mimedefang] /opt (was: Notice: Dropping support for RAV AntiVirus)
Matthew Hall
leareth at angui.sh
Tue Jun 10 20:42:01 EDT 2003
> Get used to /opt. It's part of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), in
> turn a part of Linux Standard Base (LSB). All distros are supposed to adhere
> to LSB so that 3rd parties can "follow the rules" when figuring out where
> stuff goes. /opt is the new standard place for 3rd party non-distro stuff to
> go. (I think this was inherited from the Sun world.)
Yes. It's odd to see the road go both ways, since Sun/Solaris has
been busy incorporating large amounts of the GNU tools/programs into
the Solaris base. (I was/am a Solaris sysadmin for the past 3 years).
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