Subject: Re: basic info on the directory structure
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2000 - 17:13:55 MDT
Charles Stevenson's bits of Fri, 16 Jun 2000 translated to:
>> /opt must be a mandrake thing.....I have used Linux Universe, RedHat and
>> yellowdog and I dont have an /opt... Used to use a SGI (IRIX 5.2)
>> a while back...I dont recall if it used /opt but I dont think so.
>
>/opt is a solaris thing... guess that's where the mandrake developers came
>from... hehe.
No. /opt is not a "Solaris thing". It is part of the File Hierarchy
Standard and reserved for add-on application software packages. A copy
of the standard can be found at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
Jim
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