Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

Ulrich Windl wrote:

In HP-UX many commands (or "subsystems") use /opt/<subsys>/{bin,sbin} to place 
their binaries. PATH usually does not contain all of them. That's against Linux 
philosophy I think, and I really don't like huge PATHs, but it may be one solution 
to reduce the size of linear lists. It won't help against the git<TAB><TAB> issue 
directly, however.

/opt is part of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard which defines layouts 
on Linux systems.  It is generally not used for binaries included in 
distributions or otherwise managed via distribution package managers, 
however.

	-hpa