[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 09:55:03AM +0100, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:

> FHS is "vague" about this one, so the installation into /opt was
> forbidden. UsrMove was against FHS and it passed. I guess it need better
> explanation, then you gave us.

I know that this is a rehash of previous discussions, but it's a stretch 
to claim that usrmove is against the FHS - the most you can really argue 
is that there's a requirement for recovery tools to be in the root file 
system, but given that there's also a statement that /boot contains 
data used before the kernel starts executing user-space processes it's 
clear that this predates the modern initramfs. It's explicitly permitted 
that the mandated directories in / be symlinks.