Question about package usage of /opt

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Hello,

Unrelated but still might be interesting: I'm packaging Intersystems
Caché, which is the only other MUMPS database still alive. It seems
like Ubuntu will be the best OS for MUMPS :-)

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:45 PM, LD 'Gus' Landis<ldlandis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  We are planning to create a package for the GT.M database,
>  provided by Fidelity National Information Systems.
>
> http://www.fidelityinfoservices.com/FNFIS/Markets/NonFinancialIndustries/Healthcare/GTM/
>
>  Fidelity has officially secured the /opt/lsb-gtm space at
>    http://www.lanana.org/lsbreg/packages/packages.txt
>  and so our convention is to use names like
>    /opt/lsb-gtm/5.3-003
>  for the directory holding version 5.3-003 of their software.
>
>  Once installed, NOTHING in the directory is ever changed.
>  It is read/execute only. Other than a couple of standard
>  libraries (which may not be installed by default), nothing
>  is stored outside of this directory (/opt/lsb-gtm).
>
>  Is this acceptable?  It does seem compatible with the fhs
>  document mentioned by Daniel (below), but I don't want
>  to use "old tapes".  Thank You!
>
> Cheers,
>  --ldl
>
> daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com said:
>> As far as I know, we generally prefer to not install to /opt.
>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.12.html - but
>>  maybe that's a question that you could bring up on
>>  ubuntu-devel- discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
>
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