questions about distributions

[Brian J. Conway]

> for it, though.  The question with /opt is, where should it actually
> live in the filesystem?  The root filesystem may not be big enough,
> and /usr is usually sized to hold plenty of software.

It is for this reason that many distributions create /opt as a symlink
to /usr/local.  I do the same if opt doesn't exist when I install a box,
for the purpose of evading the limited space on / and any confusion
caused by installing into a non-existent /opt.  This will depend on the
existing partitions, of course. 

Brian J. Conway
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