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Re: /opt and non-free



Fabrizio Polacco:
> Thus we will have a great place where to install packages that we don't
> think they belong to the Debian Gnu/Linux OS, like those in non-free,
> contrib (partially) and user contributed ones.
>
> Actually our feelings about non-free software are "visible" only on the
> ftp site or on CDs; why don't make clear this distinction even in the
> installed machines?

Speaking as a user here, I don't *want* the layout of my filesystem to
reflect the copyright of software on it. If I have software installed, I
have decided that I can live with and abide by the copyright, and I don't 
want to have to worry about what the copyright of that software is, anymore.

The only useful thing I can see about this idea is that if this were done, I
could copy all directories except /opt onto another computer, and know that
I wasn't violating any copyright by doing so... but it just doesn't seem
worth it to me. If you're really committed to free software, you just don't
install any stuff out of non-free. 

This would introduce masses of incompatability problems between debian and
other systems. "Oh, you want to run pine? Well, it's got a weird copyright,
so it's not in /usr/bin with all the other software, you have to add
/opt/bin to your path..." No thanks.

What is /opt really for? There must be a purpose for this directory, but I 
don't know what it is. I can't believe that it's what you propose.

-- 
See shy Jo.