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

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 11/01/2013 09:18 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 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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I thought in this discussion was already mentioned: distribution musn't 
touch anything in /usr/local.

We need the installation inside the /opt directory because some users 
are using it exactly as Bill mentioned.

Marcela