Goals for first release (June/USENIX)

Emiel Kollof coolvibe at hackerheaven.org
Thu Mar 11 12:00:42 PST 2004


* Rahul Siddharthan (rsidd at xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > 
> > Please please please don't use /opt as a package basedir. I'd rather see
> > /usr/local/packages/<packageandver>/. Using /opt is so un-POLA it's not
> > even funny. IMHO ofcourse. That and it brings back Solaris nightmares.
> 
> If I understand right, the user won't care what's in /opt, there will
> be symlinks/varsyms to /usr/local (or your favourite $PREFIX).  So, no
> POLA violation. 

It might not violate user-POLA, but it sure violates admin-POLA :)

Cheers,
Emiel
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