On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:44:07PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 14:26, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > > On Thursday 17 January 2002 20:04, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > Distributions may install software in /opt, but should not modify or > > > delete software installed by the local system administrator without > > > the assent of the local system administrator. > > > > > > Tell me how you achieve the above, with Debian packages touching > > > /opt/kde > > As explained in section 3.8, it is obvious. Local system administrator, as I > > have written, manages the contents of the following directories. > > /opt/bin, /opt/doc, /opt/include, /opt/info, /opt/lib, and /opt/man > > > > A distribution therefore cannot touch the content of these subdirs, however > > it can install software in a package directory > > /opt/<package> > > under which the files pertaining to <package> are maintained. FHS explicity > > allows this. > That is not what the text of the FHS says. There is no limitation > mentioned that states that the admin cannot install software outside of > /opt/bin, etc. And, wherever in /opt the admin decides to install > software, packages "should not modify or delete software installed by > the local system administrator without the assent of the local system > administrator." Period. > We cannot currently ensure that a package installing to /opt cannot > overwrite admin-installed software there. Oh, sure we can -- Eray can create his own little packages for KDE3, where every single file is a conffile... Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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