[lsb-discuss] path resolution for /opt/ applications

[George Kraft]

I've noticed that the issue of resolving the path for ISVs applications
installed in /opt/ has been pushed out to LSB 4.0?  For example, if
company WhizBang install application "widgets"
into /opt/whizbang/bin/widgets, then how does that get into the user's
path?

https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Book/Packaging#Example:_Packaging_and_Installing_an_Application

Possible solutions:

1) Package creates /etc/profile.d/widgets.sh script to add runtime to
PATH
2) Package creates /opt/bin/widgets wrapper script pointing to runtime,
and /opt/bin is added to the default PATH.
3) lsbinstall (aka setup-opt) does #1, #2, or something else.

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/2004-June/002151.html

http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1157

Can this be discussed now so that a solution can be concluded by the
time work begins on LSB 4.0?

-- 
George (gk4)