On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 04:18:49PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2002 13:24, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > I will not, under any circumstances, touch /opt. I believe Debian policy > > prohibits it anyway. > > I read the complete section for opt in the FHS. Here is my analysis.
Did you also read Policy, or just the FHS? > Using /opt for packages doesn't violate the policy in any way. I repeat, > James *is* right. I suggest you to read it thoroughly before making further > judgement. > > /opt is not intended solely for non-free add-on packages. > > It is provided for add-on packages of any sort. KDE is NOT an add-on! We provide it as part of Debian. My interpretation is "add-on" == "third-party". > Here is the description > > /opt -- Add-on application software packages > +-<package> Static package objects > /opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software > packages. > > It turns out that add-on does not mean "third party commercial vendor > supplied" in the following text of FHS. So indeed whoever interpreted it for > Debian (somebody who is seriously unable to comprehend English) interpreted > it incorrectly beforehand. It means what it says: "application packages" that > can be installed/removed. Much like applications in debian. (which are not > "system" software like libc) How do you know that they didn't just omit "third-party" or such in that second sentence? > Here is a part that does interest debian: > > The directories /opt/bin, /opt/doc, /opt/include, /opt/info, /opt/lib, > and /opt/man are reserved for local system administrator use. Packages > may provide "front-end" files intended to be placed in (by linking or > copying) these reserved directories by the local system administrator, > but shall function normally in the absence of these reserved > directories. > > So those subdirs: /opt/bin, /opt/doc, /opt/include, /opt/infor, /opt/lib, > /opt/man are forbidden. Don't touch those. You may do anything else you want > with /opt in the manner described in detail in section 3.8 I am not touching /opt in any way, shape or form. Period. > And the following excerpt I think clarifies the situation once and for all. > > Distributions may install software in /opt, but should not modify or > delete software installed by the local system administrator without the > assent of the local system administrator. > > : This means that Debian can install software in /opt except those subdirs > listed above. Period. Does Policy reinforce this? -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <ultima> netgod: My calculator has more registers than the x86, and -thats- sad
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