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

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 01:29:52PM +0100, Marcela Mašláňová 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
> >
> I thought in this discussion was already mentioned: distribution
> musn't touch anything in /usr/local.
> 
<nod>  I think you're trying to speak to a different point than I am making.
I'm not saying that we should touch anything under /usr/local.  I'm saying
that /usr/local is precedent for subdirectories of /usr/ that "live outside
of the OS".

-Toshio
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