Re: kde and files location
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Manong Dibos wrote:
> Just out of a curiosity. If a program is "non-free", or "contrib", can't
> we consider it to be an "addon" package? I agree to keep packages from
> the main distribution out of /opt and /usr/local. But how about packages
> in non-free and contrib?
Part of the reason for the separation, is to keep site-specific
stuff well localized, so that the rest can be restored only by using
stuff from the Debain ftp sites. This reduces the size of the local
admin's backup task.
G John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
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