>>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/: >> >>---- >>/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 It really does try to say that. It uses the terminology add-on software as distinguished from distribution provided application packages. >Applications may use a single subdirectory under /usr/lib. I think this is intended to apply to distribution provided applications (as opposed to "add-on" software), and is documented this way because elsewhere it says you can't create a subdirectory directly under /usr; but you're right this isn't terribly clearly stated. >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. Hmmm.
