Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger(a)gmail.com) said:
== Filesystem Location ==
A straw poll was taken about the filesystem location of SCLs. A few FPC
members were willing to use /opt but others were heavily opposed to it.
Everyone was okay with using /usr/scl (or the plural form /usr/scls). So
I think that needs to become the scl root dir (is that the right term?) for
Fedora.
FPC was okay with the idea that third parties might use /usr/scl as well.
I didn't bring this up at the meeting but one thing that influences me on
this is that scls are inherently rpm managed and therefore mixing both our
scls with third party scls does not seem like the same vendor-OS problem
that /opt was designed to fix.
The location does need to include a vendor identifier. at the meeting we
discussed /usr/scl/$vendor/$scl_name/ but if the vendor string made its way
into the $scl_name I don't think people would object to /usr/scl/$scl_name
(scl_name is like fdr-ruby1.9.3).
Ngggh. If the point is to have a stack that lives outside of the OS... then
it should *live outside of the OS*, not be grafted into a subpoint of the
OS. (IOW, I disagree.)
Bill