9base in Fedora?

[Adam Jackson]

On 5/20/11 8:17 AM, Petr Sabata wrote:

>      #1, aka the Gentoo way
>      Gentoo installs its 9base package into /usr/plan9, basically not touching
>      9base files at all. This collides with FHS and therefore would require an
>      exception in Packaging Guidelines.
>
>      #2, aka the Debian way
>      Debian installs its 9base package into /usr/lib. Well, most of it. They
>      also prefix all the manpages with 'plan9-', not the binaries, though.
>      This placement (provided we use %{_libdir}) introduces issues for Plan
>      9 rc shell scripts and their shebangs.
>
>      #3, aka the Fedora way?
>      Should we do this in some other way?
>
> I personally like the #1 better since it's more clean (except for the required
> FHS exception) and more or less aligned with upstream.

Yeah, #1 sounds less awful.

The other option is /opt/plan9, which might be more in the spirit of 
what the FHS says, but the packaging guidelines currently don't mention 
/opt at all.

- ajax