continuing conversation from UDS-N - Application Review Board

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 07:44:24PM +0000, Shane Fagan wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 11:38 -0800, Rick Spencer wrote:
> > Does "/opt/ubuntu/" perhaps suggest a bit of "officialness" or support
> > from the Ubuntu community, whereas these apps are specifically *not*
> > suppose to have such a connotation? 
> 
> Yeah I get what Rick is saying here. Does using /opt/ubuntu imply that
> these apps are officially supported in some capacity? I think it does a
> little, id say /opt/extra is a better option.

We don't own the /opt namespace, so "extra" is far too general.  See
http://www.lanana.org/lsbreg/providers/providers.txt for the kinds of
names that are suitable there.

"ubuntu-extras" would be fine, I imagine, and connotes exactly as much
support as "extras.ubuntu.com" does.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]