Filesystem arch changes in Fedora 17

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 17:59 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: 
> On 04/17/2012 10:39 AM, Alan Rodas wrote:
> > Also, there are many other directories that doesn't seem to fulfill
> > they original purpose anymore, like /opt (Things in /opt could be
> > easily installed in /usr/local for what is seems, is that right or am
> > I missing something?). Are there any plans to get rid of this folders?
> 
> AIUI, there are occasional programs (not in the repos) that expect to go 
> into /opt, so it's just easier to have it there JIC.

AIUI, traditionally, packages in /opt get stored as units in
subdirectories like /opt/mypackage.  /usr/local has a distributed
structure like /usr, with lib/, bin/, share/, etc. subdirectories.

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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu