[maemo-developers] Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

[From: Thomas Perl]

2009/9/9 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com>:
> ext David Greaves <david at dgreaves.com> writes:
>
>> Hmm, seems like another solution would be to have the opt partition mounted as
>> /usr and install all the 'standard' stuff into /root_usr/ and preinstall
>> symlinks into /usr -> /root_usr
>
> Yeah, that would work but we unfortunately can only install into the
> rootfs partition when creating FIASCO images, due to the tools that
> create these images.

I think David's suggestion would be more sane, as packages don't have
to be changed
(Debian packages normally install into /usr, so that's already
standard and works well).

Bootscripts could check for the existence of symlinks in /usr, and if
they are not there,
simply create them (there should be about 6 subdirectories in /usr
according to [1]).

Would that really be a problem? Using /opt just seems wrong and
nonstandard, sorry :/

Think about http://wiki.maemo.org/Mainstream_Linux_Alignment, please :)


Thanks,
Thomas

[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEUSRHIERARCHY