Is /etc/opt/ a valid installation path for all package contents?

[agorf]

Hi, thanks for Kerberos.

I've never seen /etc/opt/ used as an installation path for all package contents. It is valid, however, for configuration files etc.

From what I've seen, /opt/ is more frequently used to host a package installation as a whole.

[carriba]

I have to second on the above: a program that just needs one directory and will get all files/libraries relative to that directory can get one directory for itself in /opt/. Maybe this can be amended in the next release?

For more info, exemplary have a look in the article "What is the best place to install user apps?", and other similar articles provide the same reasoning for the bespoken approach.

[cedricve]

Thanks for your feedback guys, let's move it to /opt.

[KarlBaumann]

I guess you never moved it anywhere, did you? I think the worst is that it is creating logs file there instead of /var/log

[cedricve]

indeed still not moved.