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Re: [forward] FHS pre-2.1 draft #3 on web site



On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 20:23:00 -0700, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> The primary reason distributions are permitted to install software in
> /opt is that some commercial software may come hard-coded that way.
> Given the DFSG, that should never apply to Debian.

Not to Debian proper ("main"), but it could well affect the maintainers of
some of the packages available in the "non-free" section of the Debian
archives for which no source is available (say Netscape or Acroread).

Ray
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Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.


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