On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 03:03:52PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > I think we should create /opt because the FHS requires it, and > possibly /opt/README.debian if the FHS allows it, but nothing more.
FHS doesn't allow us to create /opt/README.debian, at least not without getting the sysadmin to be in control of it. We could have a /usr/share/doc/opt/README.debian though. > Anything else that is created there is entirely the responsibility of > the sysadmin, and any use the system makes of things under /opt should > be at the sysadmin's discretion. No Debian package should make > assumptions about what it might find there by default. Actually, it's quite reasonable to assume that valid executables will be in /opt/bin/, valid man pages in /opt/man/, valid include files in /opt/include/, valid info files in /opt/info/, and valid library files in /opt/lib/. > In other words ``There be Dragons''. It is in the white uncharted bit > of our map, so if the sysadmin wants to go there, they'll have to fill > in the details as they go along. Of course, this isn't a quote from the FHS. -- Raul
