Hi

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Thomas Perl<th.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/9 Marius Vollmer <marius.voll...@nokia.com>:
>> ext David Greaves <da...@dgreaves.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hmm, seems like another solution would be to have the opt partition mounted 
>>> as
>>> /usr and install all the 'standard' stuff into /root_usr/ and preinstall
>>> symlinks into /usr -> /root_usr
>>
>> Yeah, that would work but we unfortunately can only install into the
>> rootfs partition when creating FIASCO images, due to the tools that
>> create these images.
>
> I think David's suggestion would be more sane, as packages don't have
> to be changed
> (Debian packages normally install into /usr, so that's already
> standard and works well).

Indeed for opt every package would need it's own root directory. isn't
/usr/local more appropriate?

[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY
[2] 
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES
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