On 03/14/2013 05:03 AM, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Honza Horak <hhorak(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>> so why is MariaDB not obsoleting mysql without all
>>> this versioning tricks and "mysql-oracle" installs
>>> the server under "/usr/local/mysql-oracle/" and
>>> provides a "mysql-oracle.service"?
>>
>>
>> This is simply not possible in Fedora:
>>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#No_Files_or_Directorie...
>>
>
>
> Should an exception be allowed - or is the rule so rigid ?
>
Anything under /usr/local (except of the basic directory layout) is
supposed to be 100% under a user's control and not to be touched by
distributions.
Somewhat oversimplified, this means /usr/local is off-limits of Fedora,
no exceptions allowed.
...and for the love of all that's good and holy, please no-one suggest /opt.
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