Re: Goals for first release (June/USENIX)

[Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Emiel Kollof said on Mar 11, 2004 at 20:47:44:
> >     If we use the /opt idea as a basis, then a binary package is simply
> >     a tar of /opt/<packageandver> directory.  The ONLY thing we really need
> >     to be able to use such a tar file is a parser for 
> >     /opt/<pkgandver>/ENVIRONMENT which builds the symlinks and varsyms.
> 
> 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. 

R