[TriLUG] question about FHS

[Scott Lundgren]

I'm trying to understand something of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, and
I'm a little confused. Both of the descriptions below seem to say the same
thing. How do you tell the difference between when software should be
installed into /opt vs. /usr/local ? Is there a rule of thumb ?

thanks,
SL

The description for /opt is:
/opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software
packages
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.12.html

The description for /usr/local is:
The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when
installing software locally.
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.9.html