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Re:Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split (2010) by adwf on Friday May 06, 2016 @09:36PM (#11647909)
Arch still occasionally has some packages installed to /opt. Annoying as hell, but they expect to be there for some reason. Android-studio was the latest unexpected surprise for me.
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Re:Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split (2010) by johnny22 on Friday May 06, 2016 @11:35PM (#11648277)
I've seen distros choose /opt for software not built by the maintainers, but simply repackaged in binary form. This would include software like oracle/sun java.
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Re:Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split (2010) by GauntletWizard on Friday May 06, 2016 @09:46PM (#11647942)
Once upon a time, I read the LSB[1] filesystem hierarchy, of which the only thing I consider useful was that non-distro-provided third party software (i.e. anything you'd buy on a disk and install) should live in opt. It didn't make a huge deal of sense then and it still doesn't now, but it sorta provides a way to know which directories can safely be rm -rf'd.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base

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Re:Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split (2010) by bretthoerner on Saturday May 07, 2016 @08:52AM (#11649385)
fwiw that's from AUR, not Arch official.
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