Re: A section for commercial software?
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:55:00PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Mattias Eriksson wrote:
> > Please, don't start putting stuff in /opt. This is a place where the
> > sysadm can put his stuff and I dont want to see that packages are
> > starting to put stuff in there.
>
> You are confused about what /opt is for, please read what the FHS
> has to say about it.
I consider the FHS broken in this regard.
The only sane distinction to make is between .debs, which try to conform
to as many Debian policies as possible, and non-debs, which you untar
into /opt.
A .deb unpacking into /opt has no added value to me, it will just help
to confuse.
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