Bugzilla Bug 89552

It should be in /opt IMHO

Reproducible: Always
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Why?!

no comment -- no change.

(In reply to comment #3)
> no comment -- no change.

Sorry, missed the bug. Usually all closed source softwareis kept in /opt.

Any documentation pointers here?
Any recommendations or guidelines?

Have a look at /opt. You'll find all the closed source apps there. Acrobat,
Flashplayer, Opera, Rar, Realplayer,... I have never used a distro, not keeping
it this way. The only exception regarding Gentoo is the binary OpenOffice.org,
but that's due to some restrictions of the user installation process and/or
simple maintenance of both the binary and the source version, afaik. When you
want more information/oppinions I suppose the gentoo-dev mailing list is the
proper place.

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard specifies opt as an area for add-on
applications.  This generally provides an easy way to differentiate between
gentoo compiled programs (those designed for the system) and self contained
closed-source applications (such as acrobat, realplayer, rar, opera, skype,
sun's jdk, teamspeak, vmware, cisco's vpnclient, etc.).

You can find out more at
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES.
I don't know if there are any gentoo specific guide-lines about this.  It seems
to be more of an unwritten rule...

Hope this helps...

The stupid binary thing doesn't work in /opt, even with proper symlinks. Check
for yourself in Bug 116373.

Closing.