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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Clueless re Java: /opt vs. /usr/local Post 302879799 by fpmurphy on Sunday 15th of December 2013 11:46:03 AM
Old 12-15-2013
A word of caution regarding the FHS. It is quite an old document. Many distributions, led by Fedora, are moving away from this standard as far as /usr/bin, /bin, /usr/sbin, /sbin and other OS-specifc directories are concerned.

However the intended purpose for /usr/local and /opt has not changed over the years.
 

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SCROLLKEEPER.CONF(5)						File Formats Manual					      SCROLLKEEPER.CONF(5)

NAME
scrollkeeper.conf - ScrollKeeper configuration file SYNOPSIS
System-wide configuration of ScrollKeeper DESCRIPTION
The system-wide scrollkeeper.conf file is typically installed at /etc/scrollkeeper.conf. It stores the default OMF paths which are searched by scrollkeeper-update (8) to update the ScrollKeeper documentation catalog. The paths are held by the OMF_DIR variable which is assigned to a colon (:) delimited list of paths. Comment lines begin with the (#) character. EXAMPLE
A typical scrollkeeper.conf file will look like: # Comment OMF_DIR=/usr/share/omf:/usr/local/share/omf:/opt/gnome/share/omf:/opt/gnome-2.0/share/omf:/opt/kde/omf NOTES
Any user on the system is able to use the scrollkeeper-update (8) command to generate a ScrollKeeper database at any path that the user has write permission to. The user can over-ride the system default OMF_DIR path variable by setting a shell variable of the same name, OMF_DIR. In this way, a user can create a document catalog which contains a superset of the system documentation, or a completely indepen- dent set of documents which the user may be interested in. Note that most applications will register its documentation at install time, and unregister it at uninstall time. Thus, a user who keeps their own personal ScrollKeeper database may need to periodically run scrollkeeper-update (8) manually (or with cron) to keep their data- base up-to-date. AUTHOR
Laszlo Kovacs <laszlo.kovacs@sun.com> Dan Mueth <d-mueth@uchicago.edu> SEE ALSO
scrollkeeper-config(1), scrollkeeper-gen-seriesid(1), scrollkeeper(7), scrollkeeper-preinstall(8), scrollkeeper-rebuilddb(8), scrollkeeper- update(8) ScrollKeeper Dec 5, 2001 SCROLLKEEPER.CONF(5)
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