On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:58:49AM -0600, Eric Schwartz wrote:
> schuller@lunatech.com (Bart Schuller) writes:
> > 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.
>
> I confess to not getting the benefit of this. To me /opt says
> "Third-party stuff". If I want to drop random non-packged stuff on my
> system, that's what /usr/local is for. I see no problem with a .deb
> dropping stuff in /opt, if that's where FHS says its contents ought to
> go.
There are two major benefits to using /opt:
1) Namespace. You don't have to worry about a third party deb not
tracking collisions with new Debian packages.
2) Exportability. /usr should be NFS-exportable, possibly sans
/usr/local, without encumbrance. Any software, whether it has
dpkg information or is packaged in a .deb or not, that has a
one-license-per-machine type policy MUST NOT contaminate /usr.
The FHS is fully correct in specifying /opt for
third-party-vendors.
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