[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/07/2012 12:56 PM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
> On 02/07/2012 10:04 AM, Michal Schmidt wrote:
>> 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
>
> We are against forbidden installation path into /opt, because we are
> using it in our project
Then you will want to reconsider this.

> - Dynamic Software Collections. The /opt
> directory is used for installation of various Collections.

Packages (rpms) provided by the "Dynamic Software Collection" project 
can do so, but packages (rpms) built from these sources by Fedora must not.

Ralf