[gentoo-dev] /opt for binary only packages

[Caleb Tennis]

I know that this is a convention we've followed (and is represented on the
ebuild howto guide), but is it set in stone?

The reason I ask is that I have a group of about 5 packages that I'm
working on ebuilds for that by default all want to be in
/opt/Pkgname-version.  I've done some ebuild foo to make it want to
install stuff in /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc, but it also contains some extra
specification files that get used at runtime that it's expecting to easily
find, and leaving everything to just go into /opt/Blah is so much easier
to support.

So my question is: is it accept to install a package into /opt that isn't
strictly binary, but by default and design convention wants (and pretty
much needs) to be installed there?  I guess moreso I want to propose
changing the 'gentoo convention' for /opt to add in that it's okay to
install something in /opt that was designed to go there by its upstream
authors.

Thanks,
Caleb

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