[lsb-discuss] /opt/share

Christopher Yeoh cyeoh at samba.org
Tue Jul 25 14:00:20 PDT 2006


> Maybe the next FHS revision could be a bit more specific about the
> hierarchy under /opt. E.g. specifically recommend that /opt/bin,
> /opt/lib and /opt/share should exist and that these directories should
> be part of the default lookup paths (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, MANPATH,
> XDG_DATA_DIRS, etc...)
> 
> The XDG Base directory spec for example currently covers /usr/share and
> /usr/local/share and does not cover /opt/share because nobody knows
> about that one. Currently applications need to install files under /usr
> to integrate with the desktop menu system, it would be much more logical
> if they could use /opt for that.

Agreed. Thats a good idea.

Chris
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