On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:36:50PM -0500, Tom Diehl wrote:
So much for the stated policy of following upstream as much as possible. If it is an important change why not get upstream to change it? It appears that every time someone outside of Red Hat wants a change the standard answer is to get it changed upstream. Why is this different? It is not like Fedora will stop working without it. :-) I actually agree with the change, but I am just trying to understand what the policy really is?
File location isn't really an upstream issue -- it's an installation issue and therefore a packaging one. Obviously SE Linux is rather Linux-focused, but in general, many programs packaged for Fedora are designed to be cross-platform, and other platforms may have other expectations about where files belong.