Thread: [Under consideration] Remove 256MB limitation of the rootfs partition in the N900
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2010-02-09 , 22:06
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Originally Posted by titan View Post
no, /opt is for add-on software. Everything not shipped by Nokia (i.e. software from extras or Ovi) could be considered as add-on packages. Packages can be installed under /opt/<PACKAGE> and symlinked to /opt/bin or /opt/maemo/bin.
/usr/local is reversed for local installations, i.e. self compiled programs.
Please learn what FHS is and how it fits in here. Seriously. Anything that is packaged for a distribution on a regular desktop GNU/Linux system DOES NOT belong in /opt

/opt itself is mostly a historical feature or used by anything that can't/won't be packaged(think proprietary software like DB2, Oracle etc...).

Yes I am well aware of what /opt on maemo does but it doesn't mean I agree with it.

As for /usr/local... yes it's there for things an admin would install... but in this case it could be abused.

Also looking at other systems like BSDs /usr/local is where their packages install by default. Most things out of /usr/local are part of the core system. And this would probably fit maemo more as it would be more true.
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