On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 09:40:10AM -0400, Aaron Bennett wrote: > Phil Knirsch wrote: > >Hi folks. > > > >I've been looking at how well Fedora is compliant with the latest LSB > >and FHS specifications lately. > > > > What about /opt? From the FHS 2.3 document > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE14 , it's seems that > all of Fedora's optional packages need to install into /opt/<packagename>. The document says: /opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software packages. I don't think any Fedora package is an add-on to the system. And some being optional, everything under /usr is. :) > That's actually the Solaris way as well as, according to the "Rationale" > part of this section, "a well establish practice in the UNIX community." But in those days you couldn't do a rpm -e package (or the same for debian/gentoo/etc.). The rationale was lost a few years ago. Still, I like and use /opt and ~/opt for packages I compile. And I've switched from ~/opt/{bin,share,...} to ~/opt/package/... (or am in the process of). Less pain when I want to remove or upgrade a package. > I used to make a living packaging things for Solaris, and Sun's > packaging standard clearly states that all add-on software goes to /opt. Sun's java rpm doesn't in my linux system. > I've always hated it. Largely because have /opt/gnome/ , /opt/apache , > /opt/kde , etc starts to generate PATH variables that are horrible. But not difficult to manage. It can be computed at run-time. > However, the nice thing about that is it avoids this sort of thing: > > [abennett@burton abennett]$ cd /usr/bin > [abennett@burton bin]$ ls | wc -l > 2404 > > 2,404 files are in /usr/bin on my FC2 system! > > Anyhow, if we are all taking about /svr, we should be talking about /opt > and the rest of the FHS. I've never seen any RedHat product pay > attention to /opt. Let's decide about both things -- there's little > point in disrupting 90% of our users to achieve 50% FHS compliance. Why should any package from any vendor for any system that allows seamless installation, removal, listing and verification have to go to /opt? Now, most packages should be relocatable, but that's a different story. Regards, Luciano Rocha
