Re: Should non-free and contrib packages install to /opt?
Hi,
>>"Fabrizio" == Fabrizio Polacco <fabrizio.polacco@ntc.nokia.com> writes:
Fabrizio> Debian has absolutely no control on what people (non-DD)
Fabrizio> can put in their .deb packages. If you permit them to put
Am I the only one struck by the paradox in these words? If we
have no control over non-DD packages, then surely we do not have the
authority to permit anything. ;-)
Fabrizio> stuff under /usr (as you are saying) then you are surely
Fabrizio> going to have name clashes (at a minimum), a part the fact
Fabrizio> that this violates FHS.
I do agree with you, though. I think we should strongly urge
non-Debian sources of .deb packages to use /opt as described in the
FHS.
manoj
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