RedHat, Fedora future?

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Robin Laing wrote:

> To expand on this, if it isn't included in Fedora Core, then shouldn't 
> it be installed in /opt?

It ends up more like:

"If it isn't installed by Fedora's package management system, a package 
-may- be installed in /opt."

Anything that's using rpm (and registering itself in the system's rpm 
database) is "OS installed" (installed by the OSs own installation tools).

A third party app with it's own installer might put itself into /opt 
(all the /opt software I know is complicated third party packages with 
their own installers).

Packages installed by the local user (usually with ./configure;make;make 
install) go into /usr/local.