perfsonar development work

[Gijs Molenaar <>]

Ok, this is becomming a Parkinson's Law of Triviality
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality), and I
feel like the cry baby :)

Cándido Rodríguez Montes wrote:
> Hi Jochen,
> I totally agree with you. After reading those links, I'm happy we made
> the right choice in US :-)
>
> Regards
>
> El 24/09/2008, a las 9:21, Jochen Reinwand escribió:
>
>> Hi Gijs,
>>
>> sorry to say that, but you are really wrong.
>> What you describe is only applicable for /usr/local and even there it
>> is not 
>> really strictly forbidden to install software the way perfsonar is
>> doing it.
>>
>> LSB is not really saying much about /opt and filesystem hierarchy at all.
>> See one interesting part here: 

To addition of my privious mail FHS does;


    /opt : Add-on application software packages


      Purpose

/opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software
packages.

I don't see perfSONAR as an add-on application, as how I interprete it,
add-on software is software manually installed by the administrator (not
with the package manager).  Since we are integrating the perfSONAR
installation completely into the distribution, including having our own
package repository, I would say perfSONAR becomes a part of the
distribtion. We even created our own perfSONAR installation CD with a
custom version of Debian.


-- 
Gijs Molenaar
http://gijs.pythonic.nl

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