On a serious note, what I'd change about FreeBSD hier(7)

[Manish Jain]

On 2020-05-13 17:21, @lbutlr wrote:
> On 12 May 2020, at 23:33, Manish Jain <bourne.identity at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps you might like to remember another location : /opt
>>
>> That is entirely unused in the default config in FreeBSD, and I think /opt/bin makes a good location for the user's own software.
> 
> User software goes in ~/bin. Admin user’s software that is used by the system goes in /usr/local/bin.
> 
> I see no need for /opt/bin, what would you put there?
> 
> 

User software goes into ~/bin - that's right but with a caveat. What 
goes into ~/bin is user-specific.

If I wrote a system-wide application intended to be available to all 
users of this particular computer, /opt/bin would make a good choice.

It's of course merely a suggestion, but does help to keep /usr/local/bin 
cleanly reserved for what gets installed via pkg/ports.


Regards,
Manish Jain