Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 03:36:54PM -0400, Leam Hall wrote:
> Fedora packages third-party apps like Apache. So your point is taken as
> it supports what I've been saying. ;)
The packages are provided by the vendor -- Fedora, us. They're not
third-party in that sense. This has been the standard interpretation of the
FHS since forever.
> No, not giving up RPM. But fixing the SRPMs so that the third party
> stuff gets installed in /opt.
What's "third party stuff"? Where would you suggest to draw the line?
Apache? APR? Glibc?
Don't forget the kernel. It's third party as well. It should therefor be in
/opt. Obviously.
-- Jeroen