On Tuesday, 27 June 2006, at 16:36:20 (-0700), Wichmann, Mats D wrote: > If you're not a distribution provider, you should not be putting > things in the distribution provider's space (/usr). What you call the "distribution provider's space," I call the "package manager's space." > "third party" packages are supposed to go in /opt by the FHS > guidelines, under a subdirectory that is either a provider name or a > package name /opt is a misguided attempt at package management by placing packages into self-contained directory structures which can be easily removed or relocated using "rm -rf" or "mv" instead of having to piecemeal through /usr/local. It fails miserably to account for such basic principles as $PATH and ld and has been rendered obsolete by proper package management such as that provided by RPM. The FHS, being OS- and PM-agnostic, allows for /opt, but its use on an RPM-based system is counterproductive and foolhardy. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end." -- President George W. Bush _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
