9 Jan
2007
9 Jan
'07
13:48
Andreas Hanke
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 -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126