Change INSTALL_DIR default for aws2

[lousyd]

In the installer for aws2, the default INSTALL_DIR is /usr/local/aws-cli. I suggest changing it to /opt/aws-cli. The /usr/local hierarchy is not set up for installing whole packages in one subdirectory. It is split into different directories for bin files, source files, libraries, etc. Creating a new directory in /usr/local for aws2 breaks this convention.

Also, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, for Linux systems, says that no other directories should exist in /usr/local. It does however, specify a place for vendor package trees: /opt.

I suggest changing the default INSTALL_DIR for the aws2 installer to /opt/aws-cli. Nothing else needs to be changed to support changing that default. The /opt directory works exactly like the installer is expecting.

[kyleknap]

We would need to think about changing it to /opt/aws-cli. In the meantime though, you can control where the install dir lives using the -i parameter. So something like:

$ ./install -i /opt/aws-cli

Also, you can get a full list of the install options by running: ./install --help

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