Am Mittwoch, 6. Januar 2021, 14:35:29 CET schrieb Vojtěch Zeisek:
Dne středa 6. ledna 2021 14:18:48 CET jste napsal(a):
2) What happens if I'd try to install some 3rd party RPM (build outside OBS)? They often go into /opt, or follow "traditional" /etc /usr /var, ...
Apart from the sillyness that teamviewer is, I can't remember a time something tried to install to /opt. VirtualBox? Is in /usr. Anydesk? /usr. VMware? I thhhink /usr too, but it's been too long since I used it.
Master PDF Editor is in /opt/master-pdf-editor-5 Synology NAS software (synchronization clients, ...) in in /opt/Synology (well, I converted the packages from DEB using alien) Yakyak (Hangouts client) is in /opt/yakyak Zoom is in /opt/zoom Cisco Anyconnect VPN client is in /opt/cisco MS Skype and Teams are surprisingly in /usr :-) I can imagine bunch of drivers (e.g. for printers) to be in /opt.
Many more, e.g. - balenaEtcher - beAClientSecurity - brother - calibre - epson-inkjet-printer-escpr - epson-printer-utility - master-pdf-editor-5 - MediathekView But from a purely users perspective: I woudn't care if /opt were excluded from snapshots.
Without some kind of backward compatibility this can be very problematic for a lot of people, I'm afraid...
If you breaked using software installed in /opt, beaClientSecurity e.g., that would be a real damage for me. Legacy printer drivers as well. Regards, Alexander