[Fedora-packaging] update on FHS position on opt

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 07:36:17AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Those of us who see /opt as an okay place to put (some of the files
> from) an scl think that we can specify a vendor directory and place
> them in there.  Something like /opt/fdr/scls/scl-foo1.0/.  However,
> others argue that we're late to the party.  Since this is an area that
> the sysadmin is allowed to install into, the sysadmin may already have
> used the vendor string that we choose to install something else
> (that's why I use "fdr" instead of "fedora" in the above example...
> the chances of a collision with "fedora" seem even higher).  We would
> then be overwriting their installed software which is not allowed.

Looks like upstream FHS is committed to resolving this. See
https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1164. The upshot is that
/opt/fedora will be explicitly reserved for our use. (This is not yet
official but there does not seem to be any opposition.)

(Thanks Russ!)

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