Re: which installation path for your local application (Was Re: Files listed twice question)

[email protected] wrote:

> 
> If one was to hold true that anything not provided by the OS belongs in
> /opt, then one could argue that all of EPEL should be configured for /opt,
> and back in Fedora Extras days, all of Extras should have been in /opt.

I don't know specifically about Fedora Extras, but there have been 
problems caused by third party package repositories using /usr as their 
prefix.

Some or all of those issues may have been avoidable if /opt/reponame had 
been used as _prefix with a single file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ so the 
shared libraries would work (without resorting to rpath) and a single 
file in /etc/profile.d/ to adjust the man path and the execution path.