Re: Summary of KDE filesystem discussion
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 16:19, Jarno Elonen wrote:
> * Many people feel that KDE (and Gnome) is too large
> a whole to be stuffed in /usr/bin, /usr/share etc
> and would deserve a separate directory like X
>
> * Some proposed using /opt/kde3. Arguments:
I strongly, strongly object to this. The whole point of the Debian Way
is integration, and consistency. There's nothing special about KDE or
GNOME in this regard.
I should be able to install a package, and it should Just Work. I
shouldn't have to frob my $PATH to run binaries. I shouldn't have to do
stuff like give special arguments to "configure" scripts so they find
the development headers for a package. #include <bar.h>, or #include
<package/subsystem.h> should Just Work.
Program authors should take care to ensure that if it's important,
multiple versions can be installed seamlessly side-by-side, like gcc and
gcc-3.0. If it's not possible, then we (Debian) will have to pick a
version to distribute in each release.
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