On Mon, 21 May 2001, Chris Waters wrote: > > Something more like ``The location of all installed files and directories > > must comply with the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, except where > > indicated otherwise (or where it's just plain stupid).'' > > Perfect. Let's do it! > > (I might suggest "s/just plain stupid/inappropriate/", but that's a > niggling detail. This is still the pre-proposal discussion phase.)
I like the first one, myself. > > Putting files in /opt and symlinking from /usr/bin is quite legit as far > > as FHS compatability is concerned, but it's not legit for Debian packages. > > Good point. I'm not particularly well-versed in the details of Policy, but I have wondered why Debian doesn't like /opt (or some other name with similar objectives). A nice diatribe on the subject is: http://www.w3.org/2001/03/14/StandardizedPackagingSystem/ which is, in my book, a very nice way of putting it. Unfortunately, it has gone nowhere fast. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
