[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 13:51 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda at redhat.com>
> wrote:
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>         
>         Again, citing FHS:
>         "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."
>         
>         
>         How can this be interpreted as "non-OS vendor supplied"?
> 
> This is one of many places in which FHS is vague but that's the common
> interpretation all distributions rely on

Um. Really? Wasn't there a distro - I'm thinking SUSE? - that installed
KDE in /opt for a long time?
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