9base in Fedora?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon May 23 15:47:49 UTC 2011


On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:21:09PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> Yeah, #1 sounds less awful.
> The other option is /opt/plan9, which might be more in the spirit of 
> what the FHS says, but the packaging guidelines currently don't mention 
> /opt at all.

Please keep RPMs out of /opt. It's what sysadmins the world over use to dump
proprietary vendor packages (Matlab, Mathmatica, CUDA, etc.), without fear
of conflict with the package manager.

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences


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