On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:47:15PM -0700, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > > There was a long thread about the section named `science' a while back. > Exercise caution... > > [Craig Sanders:] > > IMO you're better off just following the debian standard of > > where to put the files - /usr/bin, /usr/share/packagename, > > /usr/share/doc/packagename, etc. that way your package will feel > > as much a part of the system as any other package. Assuming it's Free Software. > The purpose of /opt is provided by dpkg anyway, since the purpose of > /opt is to store `optional' software that can be deleted at the sysadmin's > whim without breaking anything (except perhaps other software in /opt). > Obviously, dpkg provides the same thing. If a company provides a .deb that writes things into /usr or /var, they better be ready to allow that stuff to be redistributed or spread across an arbitrary number of machines. I have had cause to export /usr and /var in the past, and would point-blank boycott any software that interferes with that ability. -- Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org> a.k.a. Zed Pobre <zed@resonant.org> PGP key and fingerprint available on finger; encrypted mail welcomed.
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