William Morder composed on 2018-03-23 21:04 (UTC-0700):

> My question is whether the package manager will put them there if I create a 
> separate partition for /opt. In any case, little tweaks have got them running 
> better. 

Config "tweaks" belong either in /etc/ or in ~. /opt/ shouldn't be touched
manually any more than /usr/lib/ or /usr/bin/.

Whether or not /opt/ is a separate filesystem the package manager has no
knowledge of, unless it's reading /etc/fstab, which I very seriously doubt.
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