continuing conversation from UDS-N - Application Review Board

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:54:15PM -0400, Allison Randal wrote:
> - develop checks (and tools for automated checking) between apps that
> install any files outside /opt and main|universe|restricted|multiverse

I assume there's a missing "conflicts" in the above?

> >    - How stringent should we be about FHS? For example, are images 
> > installed in /usr/lib an automatic rejection?

> This is one of the things that the /opt install solves. It's not such a
> big deal if an app installs images in (for example)
> /opt/extras/myappname/lib as it is to pollute the global lib paths. FHS
> is also a good area for encouraging developers to a better way.

> Apps that install outside /opt will be required to respect the FHS.

ObPedantic: /opt is specified in the FHS, so *all* apps are required to
respect the FHS. :)

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