Request For Candidates: Application Review Board

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:00:59PM -0400, James Westby wrote:
> No, as I understand it, it is a .deb, but without maintainer scripts
> (with triggers to take care of things, rather than arbitary code), and
> any other restriction that we wish to place, such as no /etc/cron*
> files. (I'm not sure I agree with pitti that we should go outside the
> standard FHS here, but it does have a nice fail-closed property.)

I wouldn't say this is going outside the FHS.  /opt is defnitely *part* of
the FHS... it's the heirarchy reserved for packages from third-party vendors
(as distinct from the OS vendor), which in a sense is precisely what these
are.  So to me, this seems an altogether proper place for them.

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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