Subject: Re: des encryption..

From: Yves Arrouye <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 11:40:53 +0200

Ian Jackson writes:
 > Also I propose to mandate in the policy manual that packages which use
 > /opt should provide appropriate links or files in
 > /opt/{bin,lib,man,include,info,doc} and that packages which search
 > paths must look in /opt too.  Comments ?  (And see the recent
 > FSSTND/FHS work on /opt - it's deliberately very vague.)

Should we put /opt/bin before or after /usr/bin by default? (I'd suggest
before).

Yves.

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 96 03:30 BST

> Should we put /opt/bin before or after /usr/bin by default? (I'd suggest

After, because it will be larger, and because it makes it harder for
an /opt package to accidentally cause problems ?

The sysadmin can always use /usr/local to change which one is run if
they want some different arrangement locally.

Ian.

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 96 14:10 BST

(Moved to debian-devel:)

[email-masked] writes ("Re: des encryption.."):
> [Ian Jackson:]
> > Can we please put /opt -> /usr/opt and the empty /opt tree in the base
> > package, before things get any worse ?
> > 
> And where goes the copyright file ? /opt/doc/<package>/copyright ? This will
> be messy.  /usr/doc/<package>/copyright seems to be inappropriate as well.

/opt/<package>/copyright, in line with the non-integrated nature of
many of these packages ?

Any opinions, anyone ?

Ian.