On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano(a)redhat.com>wrote:
On 11/01/2013 09:18 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 03:43:51PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
>> Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger(a)gmail.com) said:
>>
>>> == Filesystem Location ==
>>> A straw poll was taken about the filesystem location of SCLs. A few FPC
>>> members were willing to use /opt but others were heavily opposed to it.
>>> Everyone was okay with using /usr/scl (or the plural form /usr/scls).
>>> So
>>> I think that needs to become the scl root dir (is that the right term?)
>>> for
>>> Fedora.
>>>
>>> [snip]
>
>>
>>
>> Ngggh. If the point is to have a stack that lives outside of the OS...
>> then
>> it should *live outside of the OS*, not be grafted into a subpoint of the
>> OS. (IOW, I disagree.)
>>
>> I suppose the counter example to the argument that because the
> directory is
> under /usr it is grafted onto the OS would be /usr/local. But I don't
> know that any of the FPC members were looking at it in this light.
>
> -Toshio
>
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> I thought in this discussion was already mentioned: distribution musn't
touch anything in /usr/local.
We need the installation inside the /opt directory because some users are
using it exactly as Bill mentioned.
Isn't that exactly why we musn't touch anything inside /opt?
-J
Marcela
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