Paul Quinn wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
Hi! Tony,
On 20 Feb 18 21:37, you wrote to Alexandr Kruglikov:
I personally prefer to install software I compile myself into
/usr/local(/bin|sbin), and leave /usr for software from packages.
I use /opt for such purposes =)
/opt is best for the big apps, but small stuff in /usr/local. :)
Please define big, medium or small. ;-)
Big - majot application suite, which may have its own libraries and other data files. - an example from the early days was OpenOffice, before it came packaged with Linux distros. There have been a few other things of comparable size that tended to be installed into /opt. Strictly speaking, BBSs, which have a fairly involved directory structure could be installed under /opt (e.g. /opt/sbbs, /opt/mystic, etc), though most of us, myself included, don't do this.
Small - utilities and single purpose programs. binkd only does one thing (it's an FTN mailer). One could argue it's part of the BBS and install it into the BBS's binary directory (e.g. /opt/sbbs/exec). More than one way to skin a cat. ;) What I personally wouldn't do though is install it into /opt/binkd. That seems a bit overkill.
I'm with Alexandr on this matter, for a number of reasons. Lets talk
size then; I have three Fido machines each off of /opt/ftn/fido, the largest of which (this one) is a little over half a gig. (Ain't much
of a filebase.) Then there's the small-medium system, and the little
point system.
Sure, the BBS as a whole would be a good fit for /opt . But I was talking about binkd in isolation, rather than the BBS as a whole.
I won't mention the other two binkD installs in some other /home/paul/xxaltfido trees that just move files around... oh bugger!
Oops.
Haha, as I alluded to above, I think we all break the recommended standards in some way. :D
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