I've seen a lot of self-hosted software wanting to store their data in /opt, is there any reason why?

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Woah, there's even /etc/opt and /var/opt in the FHS.

I agree, " Add-on application software packages" is quite ambiguous.

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