On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:57:26PM -0600, Tony Vance wrote:
* When installing new programs, is it considered better to always install new programs under a user's home directory, or under a directory off the root?
This is a matter of personal preference but I believe that traditionally big packages have been placed in subdirectories of /opt. I usually create a bin, lib, and share directory in my home directory and then when I build things I pass --prefix=$HOME to the configure script so it installs in my home directory. For binary packages you can put them wherever you want.
Well, /opt is really a relic of HP-UX. Standard packages were put in /stand and optional packages in /opt. I sometimes like to use /opt, but I think /usr/local is supposed to be the correct place.
The current version of the Filesystem Heirarchy Standard lives here <http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/> if you're interested in really doing it the "right way".
-- Andrew Jorgensen
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