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

[Jon Ciesla]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano at redhat.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> Isn't that exactly why we musn't touch anything inside /opt?

-J


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