[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 02/07/2012 11:55 PM, Adam Williamson 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:
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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?

Not anymore apparently

Rahul