On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 08:32 -0700, Daniel Kegel wrote: > But the FHS forbids the system vendor from putting anything in /opt. > And rpmlint seems to assume that anything > packaged as an RPM is "from the system vendor". > rpmlint gives me hell if I run it on an rpm that installs under /opt. > It's much, much happier if I change the package to install under /usr. > > So is rpmlint wrong here? The FHS forbids it (and I agree) but that doesn't stop some vendors from doing it. >From a SUSE Linux 9.3 box: /opt/gnome/ (597MB) /opt/kde3/ (970MB) /opt/mozilla/ (57MB) /opt/MozillaFirefox/ (41MB) /opt/novell/ (6MB) These paths all come from the stock rpms. Dax Kelson Guru Labs
