[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED 1.2 Feb-26 meeting summary

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] OFED 1.2 Feb-26 meeting summary
> 
> On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 14:06 -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> > I think that Doug is trying to say that our default location should  
> > be /usr (not /usr/local/ofed).  That would seem to solve several issues:
> > 
> > - will automatically generate conflicts with the RHEL OFED RPMs
> > - less muckery with finding libraries and header files
> > - can claim to be FHS complaint
> > - user *can* change the default location to elsewhere if they want to
> > 
> > If it's a simple issue to change our default,
> 
> If it's *not* a simple issue to change the default (and in truth, it
> does take some forethought and planning to get it right), then the much
> more important question is why would you expect the user to do that work
> themselves?

Good point :).

> >  is the only reason  
> > *not* to do it the historical precedent of prior community OFED  
> > versions?  If so, that argument is somewhat diluted because a) we (as  
> > a community) are encouraging users to upgrade, and b) RH started is  
> > already shipping OFED RPMs that live in /usr.
> 
> c) like every other initially /usr/local package, there comes a time to
> grow up.  If historical precedent meant anything, I'm sure X would still
> be in /usr/local.

Sounds OK. Does EWG vote on this, or something?

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