[Portland] /opt setup

[Dan Kegel]

On 7/17/06, George Kraft <gk4 at cactus.org> wrote:
> This morning Waldo Bastian gave a Portland presentation at DDC06 in
> Ottawa.  He briefly discussed how to integrate /opt/ applications
> into /usr/.  I would like to recommend a one time global setup of /opt/
> via /etc/profile.d/ and for every /opt/ application to do a post install
> setup.

While we were testing Picasa, we found that it was neccessary to do
  ln -s /opt/picasa/bin/picasa /usr/bin/picasa
Otherwise it was too hard to explain how to run the app from the commandline.
(Seriously.  It has to be *that* easy.)
It made me cringe to do this, though.
I would much rather pollute /opt/bin, though for it to be useful /opt/bin
would have to be in all users' default PATH.
- Dan