https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/usr-local-bin-vs-opt/m-p/3293995#M481373 Can someone give me insight here.<BR /><BR />/opt - opt has always been for installing<BR /> middleware/third party packages<BR /> basically.<BR />/usr/local/bin - for basically home grown scripts, binaries.<BR /><BR />I am starting to find that porters are now<BR />dumping gcc, perl tools all in /usr/local/bin.<BR /><BR />This seems to be a messy way of installing<BR />software especially if one of the files from<BR />these distributions happens to have the same<BR />name and overwrites my custom files.<BR /><BR />One of these sites is the HP Porting Center.<BR /><BR />What do you think?<BR /><BR /> Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:58:33 GMT jerry1 2004-06-02T11:58:33Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/usr-local-bin-vs-opt/m-p/3293995#M481373 Can someone give me insight here.<BR /><BR />/opt - opt has always been for installing<BR /> middleware/third party packages<BR /> basically.<BR />/usr/local/bin - for basically home grown scripts, binaries.<BR /><BR />I am starting to find that porters are now<BR />dumping gcc, perl tools all in /usr/local/bin.<BR /><BR />This seems to be a messy way of installing<BR />software especially if one of the files from<BR />these distributions happens to have the same<BR />name and overwrites my custom files.<BR /><BR />One of these sites is the HP Porting Center.<BR /><BR />What do you think?<BR /><BR /> Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:58:33 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/usr-local-bin-vs-opt/m-p/3293995#M481373 jerry1 2004-06-02T11:58:33Z