RE: Mail Program-Elm

Holger Rauch <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Aug 2002 08:57:29 +0200 (CEST)

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Hi!

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Cheminot, Eric wrote:

> Bobby said it all. Also, as said in the doc pages, if you install from the
> tarball, it is a good idea to install it under /opt (place to install all
> external binaries or builds not from ebuild - it is a convention though).

AFAIK, /opt is supposed to be used for (mostly commercial) programs having
their own installer (e.g. JDKs, JBuilder, etc.). "/usr/local" is the dir
to be used for self-compiled binaries not being part of the distro. (If I
understand the File Hierarchy Standard right).

Greetings,

	Holger