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

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Fri Nov 1 20:18:39 UTC 2013


On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 03:43:51PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.
> > 
[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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