Re: Should non-free and contrib packages install to /opt?

["Alexander N. Benner" <Nikodemus@innocent.com>]

hi

Sorry for just popping in without having followed the thred.


Ship's Log, Lt. Manoj Srivastava, Stardate 190199.1254:
> 
> 	I do agree with you, though. I think we should strongly urge
>  non-Debian sources of .deb packages to use /opt as described in the
>  FHS. 

Please not. I don't see any good it would do, and I realy have no need to
search an other tree for a program or whatever.

I sometimes talk with non-Linux user and on one thing I have to (partially)
agree. It's sometimes hard to find something.

<sarcasm>
We could also do a /main, /contrib, /non-free and /non-US and then there would
be the subdirectories admin, .....
</sarcasm>


Greetings
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