[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Mark Bidewell]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 13:51 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>         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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Suse is technically closer to the original intent of the filesystem
hierarchy standard.  /usr/bin is for non-critical system binaries (on
some Unix installations, /usr/bin is mounted readonly via NFS).
/usr/local and /opt would then be used to hold optional packages.


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