James Antill (james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 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 -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
