Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
So far so good. But for certain technical and political [ ... ]
Without providing an answer to your more complex
"conditional dependency" problem, you might consider
letting the FHS guide you on placement of files...
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/:
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/opt : Add-on application software packages
Purpose
/opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software
packages.
Yes, it but it doesn't say that applications should or must be installed
on /opt, as far as I can tell. And it also says
Applications may use a single subdirectory under /usr/lib.
I've always thought that it makes most sense to let rpm = the native
package manager on the system install to /usr, and reserve /opt for
other types of installation. Also, I think the standard may be
interpreted as saying that rpms depending on others whose data reside on
/usr (or generally rpms that depend on each other, really) should *not*
install to /opt.
- Toralf
