Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger@xxxxxxxxx) said: > == Filesystem Location == > A straw poll was taken about the filesystem location of SCLs. A few FPC > members were willing to use /opt but others were heavily opposed to it. > Everyone was okay with using /usr/scl (or the plural form /usr/scls). So > I think that needs to become the scl root dir (is that the right term?) for > Fedora. > > FPC was okay with the idea that third parties might use /usr/scl as well. > I didn't bring this up at the meeting but one thing that influences me on > this is that scls are inherently rpm managed and therefore mixing both our > scls with third party scls does not seem like the same vendor-OS problem > that /opt was designed to fix. > > The location does need to include a vendor identifier. at the meeting we > discussed /usr/scl/$vendor/$scl_name/ but if the vendor string made its way > into the $scl_name I don't think people would object to /usr/scl/$scl_name > (scl_name is like fdr-ruby1.9.3). Ngggh. If the point is to have a stack that lives outside of the OS... then it should *live outside of the OS*, not be grafted into a subpoint of the OS. (IOW, I disagree.) Bill -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
