This seems to be a flaw with the Debian distribution then. Doesn't the Linux filesystems standard (or whatever its called) specify that software should be installed there?

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From: Russell Coker [mailto:russell@coker.com.au] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 10:03 AM To: Stephen Smalley
Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: SE Linux packages of login, sshd, tar, stat, findutils, fileutils, and [xkg]dm

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:27, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Russell Coker wrote:
> > Because no package is allowed to put files in /usr/local !
>
> Well, I suppose that this makes sense for packages that are intended
to be
> installed as part of the base Debian system. But won't your SELinux
> packages be optional components to be installed after a base install?
And
> if so, then is it really forbidden to use /usr/local?

It's forbidden for any Debian packages to put files there for any reason.

Whether a package is optional or required makes no difference.

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