Including shared libraries in a package

[Luka Renko]

On Thursday 08 January 2009 09:23:50 Stephan Hermann wrote:
> To be honest, I use some third party non-open-source apps from those
> vendors and even when I don't like their politics sometimes, I do
> appreciate when they do not install their libs under /usr/*
>
> I do like the way of installing those apps and with their needed libs
> (I do understand why they need sometimes different libs then we are
> shipping) under
>         /opt/<vendor>/<application>-<version>/{bin,etc,lib,share,<whatever>
>}

I would also like to support the use of /opt for partner repository packages. 
This makes clear separation and it is anyhow defined in FHS.

Stephan, I think /opt structure is actually separated on top level, therefore 
you have:
/opt/<xyz>
/etc/opt/<xyz>
/var/opt/<xyz>

More info is available here:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES

(or http://tinyurl.com/fhs-opt)

Regards,
Luka