On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 13:51 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >> >> Again, citing FHS: >> "Distributions may install software in /opt, but must not >> modify or delete software installed by the local system >> administrator without the assent of the local system >> administrator." >> >> >> How can this be interpreted as "non-OS vendor supplied"? >> >> This is one of many places in which FHS is vague but that's the common >> interpretation all distributions rely on > > Um. Really? Wasn't there a distro - I'm thinking SUSE? - that installed > KDE in /opt for a long time? > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Suse is technically closer to the original intent of the filesystem hierarchy standard. /usr/bin is for non-critical system binaries (on some Unix installations, /usr/bin is mounted readonly via NFS). /usr/local and /opt would then be used to hold optional packages. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
