On Wednesday 12 November 2003 17:14, Fabrice Aeschbacher wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was surprised of that directory change too. I would prefer that we
> stay in "/usr/local/" rather than "/opt" install dir.
>

The FHS leaves some room for interpretation on this point, but
fundamemtally /usr/local has two uses.

o Users compile and install their own applications in a location untouched
by sysadmins or the makers of a distribution.

o Following on from the first point it could be argued that application
developers could also install their applications into /usr/local

On the hand, the FHS seems very clear that /opt is a good place for third
party applications. Some distros make use of /opt (SUSE for one) and others
don't. And some application developers make use of /opt and others don't.

This is one of those arguments that will never be resolved, but for now I
think it is reasonable that official releases of Firebird packages go
into /opt and user built packages go into /usr/local.


Paul
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