Hi,

> > [...]
> > 
> > I'm very carefully staying out of the /opt debate as I know I don't 
> > understand enough of the consequences of. That said, the first step in 
> > being able to get this fix in is to fix the existing packages in our 
> > distro, something we could definitely use some help with since the 
> > problems, I believe, may be relevant for the nevada and S10 distros as well.
> 
> The first thing to settle in the /opt debate is: what are the rules for
> OpenSolaris?  So far we have Shawn's opinion, but we don't know that
> it's authoritative.  Third parties can reasonably think that they have a
> pressing need to resolve that issue.  Then we can leisurely debate what
> the answer should be (as opposed to what it is).

man filesystem on Indiana is speaking clearly.

Even Sun IPS repositories are delivering "non-bundled" SW to /opt

No 3rd party SW should go to /usr (non-compliant SW could
reuse /usr/local). At least Indiana documentation is written in such
way.

Best regards,

Milan

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