On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 6:18 PM Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Then I'm confused. Why are browsers in main unable to support a > location other than /etc/opt for this?
Because the app in /opt/ is not allowed by the FHS to store its configuration anywhere other /etc/opt/ . > Could there be a package in contrib that installs a symlink to > /etc/opt, with the rest of the functionality in main? Honestly, that would make things much worse for GNOME users who happen to enjoy using Google Chrome than to just have the full-featured gnome metapackage install chrome-gnome-shell with support for all major browsers. Unless someone proposes a working patch for something better, I'll probably just implement the simple mkdir workaround in chrome-gnome-shell's postrm which will satisfy piuparts. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
