[Fedora-packaging] SCL discussion at yesterday's meeting, easy stuff

[Bill Nottingham]

Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger at 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.
> 
> FPC was okay with the idea that third parties might use /usr/scl as well.
> I didn't bring this up at the meeting but one thing that influences me on
> this is that scls are inherently rpm managed and therefore mixing both our
> scls with third party scls does not seem like the same vendor-OS problem
> that /opt was designed to fix.
> 
> The location does need to include a vendor identifier.  at the meeting we
> discussed /usr/scl/$vendor/$scl_name/  but if the vendor string made its way
> into the $scl_name I don't think people would object to /usr/scl/$scl_name
> (scl_name is like fdr-ruby1.9.3).


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.)

Bill