Re: Comments on FHS testsuite run
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Santiago Vila wrote:
> > The empty /etc/opt may well be inside the foreign package using it.
>
> No, since /etc/opt should be used by software that is not part
> of the distribution. The distribution is responsible for making
> sure the infrastructure for such third party apps exists (ie dirs like
> /opt, /usr/local, /etc/opt and /var/opt must exist).
FHS does not say that.
In either case, if by "infraestructure" you mean one or two empty
directories, I would say foreign apps which do not install rightly
because of these directories not being preset are broken, and we have
no need to support broken software.
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