On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
>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.
We do permit other to package their
[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
[this is long, very long, sorry. It also needs a comfortable chair and a
glass of Finlandia vodka near your other hand :-) ]
Proposal to split /opt from /usr
The FHS draft makes a clear separation of the fs hierarchy,
distinguishing from the four orthogonal categories of files:
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Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
>
> i think it's time for a general discussion :
> where should debian place files ? /usr/local is local, so we should
> not touch it.
Right, agreed. If we all agree, I think we can drop /usr/local from our
discussion, just to keep things simpler.
> but there are sever
Hi,
>>"Andreas" == Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andreas> i think it's time for a general discussion : where should
Andreas> debian place files ? /usr/local is local, so we should not
Andreas> touch it. but there are several big packages, that could go
Andreas> into /opt.
A
you are right. some years ago when i started learning linux, the biggest
difference to dos was, that files were not seperated by source package,
but by type. the only existing exceptions are either historic or have
good reasons (e.g. minimal root file system). /opt was never
designed because it's g
i think it's time for a general discussion :
where should debian place files ? /usr/local is local, so we should not
touch it. but there are several big packages, that could go into /opt.
current policy is the hardest way : everything in /usr, nothing in /opt.
we should discuss whether we want to
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