@cscat: I wouldn't mind doing so (and besides, you can always compile it by yourself). But do you really think that because one person requests it, I will break thousands of existing installations?
On a side note, putting stuff into a folder named "opt" again confuses other people, who don't read the instructions, and are thinking that it is the familiar /opt, and then start to wonder again why things don't work.
This is tiring - whichever way you do it, you do it wrong. Everybody seems to have complaints and to know better, but almost nobody is willing to put in any effort by themselves.
