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What is the /opt directory?

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What is the /opt directory?

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Linux · 3 months ago

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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I like running mesa git for a few specific games but I have zero desire to install it for my system so I install it to /opt and invoke the right environment variable to use it from there instead

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