Mario Blättermann wrote:
Am 16.07.2011 21:06, schrieb Siem Korteweg:
> Why is it not permitted for packages to install files in /opt while that
> is allright according to the FHS and Fedora follows FHS?
FHS says in the first sentence:
»/opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software
packages.«
Installation in /opt is unusual in Fedora, but permitted as far as I
know. Is SCC an »add-on software«?
As I understand it, "add-on" refers to software that is not installed as a
Fedora package, that is a tarball or some other kind of package that you
download from a third-party website. That's what the generic SCC package is.
Although it's distributed as an RPM package in this case, it's not a Fedora
package, so it belongs in /opt.
When you package SCC for Fedora it becomes a part of Fedora and is no longer
an "add-on", so then its files shall be placed in /usr/bin, /etc/scc and
/var/lib/scc (not /var/scc).
Björn Persson