On 02/07/2012 12:56 PM, Michal Schmidt wrote: > Bohuslav Kabrda wrote: >> I see your point and I agree that it does make sense from this >> perspective. Still, I'd like to know what is behind this decision - >> why do we want to forbid this behaviour? Have any Fedora users run >> into problems with any software installing under /opt? Please give >> me some rationale behind this. I still think we may find situations >> appropriate for using /opt and we shouldn't just say "don't do >> that", but rather "be careful when doing that". > > I'm curious what situations that might be. Why would I want to package > anything in Fedora under /opt? What advantage is there compared to > using /usr like everything else in the distribution? > Why would you not want to enforce this kind of consistency in Fedora > regardless of what funny stuff the FHS allows? > > Michal If we want package collection of packages based on new release of Perl or Ruby, which is separated from system packages, then it's /opt appropriate. Marcela -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
