Michael Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On 09/05/2012 02:08 PM, Emmet Hikory wrote: >> Regardless of our final decision with regard to the >implementation >> limiting the impact on users of potentially malicious automatically >> reviewed applications, I think we ought continue to make efforts so >> that our tools support /opt properly. There are many existing >popular >> and successful free and commercial applications using /opt today for >> other unices, and we can only benefit by reducing the porting effort >> for this software to Ubuntu. >> > >It's important to remember that when we say "support /opt/ properly" >what we really mean is "support /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/* properly". We >aren't just using /opt/ as an install prefix, we making a different >install prefix for every single application, and that means that every >tool is going to need to consider every install prefix for every >application that might be installed. That's normal for /opt. The FHS standard layout for /opt is /opt/$VENDOR/$PACKAGE. That's why /opt gives us filename namespace separation. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
