[xubuntu-users] shell tools

[Benjamin P. August]

In some worlds it was /opt and others it was /usr/local that got used for
extra packages.
But Solaris (SysV based) used /opt, and once upon a time it was the #1
proprietary UNIX.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:06 AM, Ulli Horlacher <
framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:

> On Mon 2017-01-09 (22:33), Peter Flynn wrote:
>
> > I must have been off-planet when /opt got "standardised"...I still don't
> > know where it came from.
>
> SysV UNIX
>
>
> > Possibly one of the most unnecessary changes ever to affect Linux.
>
> It is a good idea. You can place an optional software package in a single
> directory and do not have to spread it over /etc /usr/bin /lib ...
>
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