[moved to debian-policy, leaving debian-private] Christoph Lameter wrote: > > No way. The way Andreas did it was just fine. /opt is for third party > software and Debian is the Operating System vendor in that scheme of > things. >
I can summarize her the conclusion of a 1000 words message that I just sent to debian-policy. We are the OS vendor, and we are packaging these programs acting as if we were the SW vendor, because he has not yet interest to do this by itself, but things will change. One of the things that I've heard as a distinction between RedHat and debian is that we don't _permit_ others to package their software by themself, as opposed to red hat that accepts contributions from everyone. ciao, fabrizio -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Pluto Leader - Debian Developer & Happy Debian 1.3.1 User - vi-holic | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E
