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Re: KDE filesystem structure



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On Wednesday 16 January 2002 14:09, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> >
> > You say that like it's a good thing. Mosfet's on drugs.
>
> It just happens that piece by Mosfet is well written.
>
> Although I cant see how putting kde in /opt/kde would be more logical.. If
> anywhere, I would put it in /usr/kde. Like X it is a system on its own, "A
> system within the system".

We call that a "subsystem" in engineering. Heh :)

Generally speaking, it's good design if a system can have physical modularity 
to some extent, ie logical modularity is evident in the case of X11 but 
physical modularity makes it more sensible to deal with.

Therefore, a system that uses an efficient unified filesystem implementation 
instead of a packaging system to keep track of file locations would be much 
more consistent than Debian.[*] I'm hoping to see something like that with 
the use of more advanced kernels.

Thanks,

[*] So every package looks like X11. Packaging system's responsibility is 
making sure that the system is consistent and in a working state rather than 
showing you which file is stored where... 

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