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Re: /opt and non-free

On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:

> FHS is near to go released soon, and then (if we decide to follow it) we
> will have the possibility to put packages under /opt .
> There will be /etc/opt, /var/opt and /opt/<pkg>, while the subdirs
> /opt/bin, /opt/man, /opt/lib, /opt/doc, etc., will contain only 
> wrappers or links to /opt/<pkg>/...
[snip]
> Comments?

	I think we should _allow_ to use this scheme (for non-free 
packages only through), but I'm not sure we should _force_ it for every 
package going in non-free.

Allowing to use /opt will reduce the pain for packaging software that 
come without source (xmayday, jdk). These software often want all their 
files into a common subdirectory, so we currently have to put it under 
/usr/lib/package and add tons of symlinks.. _):


	Cordialement,

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