Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > i think it's time for a general discussion : > where should debian place files ? /usr/local is local, so we should > not touch it.
Right, agreed. If we all agree, I think we can drop /usr/local from our discussion, just to keep things simpler. > but there are several big packages, that could go into /opt. > > current policy is the hardest way : everything in /usr, nothing in > /opt. we should discuss whether we want to keep this hard line, and > if we weaken our policy, how we should decide if a package should > go in /opt or not. yes. I think that is a "high policy" to decide what goes in /usr and what in /opt, and why. (we already know of /usr/local) > fsstnd sais nothing about /opt, the proposed addition talks about > "add-on application software packages". i could not find a fhs draft. I took the liberty of sending you (Andreas), in a separate message, the may97 draft of fhs2.0, the latest I've grabbed from Quinlan's ftp site. >From Christian's words I suppose that he has it. Dan Quinlan doesn't like that the draft goes distributed and/or quoted untill it's released, but we should have something on which to start. I hope that Dan is reading us and enter the discussion. > > this is not a debian problem. i talked to people from 3 other > distributions, and they have the same problems > (suse,delix,lst/caldera). This is very interesting, because the problem is really not specific to debian. Can them join us here or should we move the discussion elsewhere, maybe to fhs-discuss (and subscribing that mailing list, I really didn't want to shut Christian out (how can you think that?)) > current way works better than expected - i got kde to fit into /usr. Yes, if the package organization is well thought and the program is intended for Unix, then this is quite like to happen. Think of packages created for Windows NT with Unix as a port (V++ GUI, jade, ...). Well, let's enter the core ... [after written the message I have edited it and split it in a separate message, so ... read it, keeping seriously the initial suggestion] cheers, Fabrizio -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Pluto Leader - Debian Developer & Happy Debian 1.3.1 User - vi-holic | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E
