Re: FHS, netscape and Dan Bernstein

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:39:22AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> For inclusion in non-free, which is more significant: access to source
> code or 100% FHS compliance?

A further comment (from Paul Jarc):

  The FHS says: "The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system
  administrator when installing software locally.  It needs to be safe
  from being overwritten when the system software is updated."  It doesn't
  say anything about whether the software installed in /usr/local comes
  from the same distributor as the OS.


Imagine a patch to dpkg where any file with a prefix mentioned in
/etc/dpkg/protected would not be overwritten unless it already
is mentioned in dpkg's configuration database.

Thanks,

-- 
Raul