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

[Bill Nottingham]

James Antill (james at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> >  If you feel
> > that the OS is 'all software shipped by Fedora in the everything repo', then
> > you might feel that they shouldn't belong in /opt. I feel that the actual OS
> > is smaller than "the total of everything that we ship", and so therefore
> > /opt is a place to package other things that Fedora might produce.
> 
>  Your original remark was that "/opt is good because enterprises like to
> have different things be stored separately, and /opt is much easier to
> do this with than /usr/lib/scls" ... and I would 100% agree that if an
> enterprise produces an SCL for something, they might well want/require
> that to be stored differently and hence live in /opt.
>  I could even accept that it's possible some (most maybe) will want that
> to be true for SCLs coming from software-collections.org and/or random
> other third parties.
> 
>  But from Fedora itself?

Yes. Having SCLs in entirely different places merely depending on vendor
seems inconsistent. And it's not as if "in /usr/scl" vs "in /opt" is a
particularly useful 'higher level of integration' IMO.

Bill