RE: Mail Program-Elm

"Cheminot, Eric" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
Message-ID <B792B80756A1D511B9BD00508BB8CDB2B5A768@macedoine.grenoble.xrce.xerox.com>
You're right. This is from File Hierarchy Standard. But i think having read
to put all under /opt somewhere on the gentoo site... I should have read too
quickly!

-ec

-----Original Message-----
From: Holger Rauch [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 8:57 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [gentoo-newbies] Mail Program-Elm


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


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