[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Michal Schmidt]

Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> And more importantly:
> "Distributions may install software in /opt, but must not modify or
> delete software installed by the local system administrator without
> the assent of the local system administrator."

Supposing that we allow Fedora packages to ship files in /opt,
how would we guarantee that on installation they don't overwrite
anything the administrator put there? RPM will overwrite an unowned
file, won't it?

The restriction makes sense.

Michal