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List:       opensuse-packaging
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-packaging] GNOME: planned changes (move to /usr, scriptlets)
From:       Andreas Jaeger <aj () suse ! de>
Date:       2007-01-09 13:48:14
Message-ID: homz4s8g69.fsf () reger ! suse ! de
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Andreas Hanke <andreas.hanke@gmx-topmail.de> writes:

> No, the LSB/FHS does not forbit to install packages outside /usr, but
> doing this forces packagers to bend the FHS specifications in sometimes
> extreme ways because some files *must* live in /usr because they would
> not work otherwise.

The LSB asked us to not install anything in /opt (with the exception
of /opt/novell since we own that).  /opt is according to the LSB
reserved for third party packages.  This is a stricter interpretation
than the FHS,

Andreas
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