Bug#888549: chrome-gnome-shell: Please don't use /etc/opt, it's not FHS-compliant

[Jonathan Nieder]

Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 5:57 PM Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> There is no reason this functionality cannot be offered in Debian. We
>>> got complaints when we supported other browsers but not Google Chrome.
>>
>> Since Google Chrome is not part of Debian, shouldn't this
>> functionality be offered in contrib, not Debian?
>
> No. Despite its name, chrome-gnome-shell also supports Chromium and
> Firefox, both of which are in main.

Then I'm confused.  Why are browsers in main unable to support a
location other than /etc/opt for this?

Could there be a package in contrib that installs a symlink to
/etc/opt, with the rest of the functionality in main?

Thanks,
Jonathan