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

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

Hi

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Thomas Perl<th.perl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

Indeed for opt every package would need it's own root directory. isn't
/usr/local more appropriate?

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