On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:21:09PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
Yeah, #1 sounds less awful.
The other option is /opt/plan9, which might be more in the spirit of
what the FHS says, but the packaging guidelines currently don't mention
/opt at all.
Please keep RPMs out of /opt. It's what sysadmins the world over use to dump
proprietary vendor packages (Matlab, Mathmatica, CUDA, etc.), without fear
of conflict with the package manager.
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Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences