[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 02/07/2012 12:56 PM, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
>> I see your point and I agree that it does make sense from this
>> perspective. Still, I'd like to know what is behind this decision -
>> why do we want to forbid this behaviour? Have any Fedora users run
>> into problems with any software installing under /opt? Please give
>> me some rationale behind this. I still think we may find situations
>> appropriate for using /opt and we shouldn't just say "don't do
>> that", but rather "be careful when doing that".
> 
> I'm curious what situations that might be. Why would I want to package
> anything in Fedora under /opt? What advantage is there compared to
> using /usr like everything else in the distribution?
> Why would you not want to enforce this kind of consistency in Fedora
> regardless of what funny stuff the FHS allows?
> 
> Michal

If we want package collection of packages based on new release of Perl
or Ruby, which is separated from system packages, then it's /opt
appropriate.

Marcela