Re: kde directory structure
Hi,
>>"Manong" == Manong Dibos <jwalther@citytel.net> writes:
Manong> On 20 Sep 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> I think any distribution that does not include Emacs or X11
>> packages sucks.
Manong> I dont see how sticking them in /opt constitutes "not
Manong> including" them.
Because only third party software goes in /opt -- that means
that Debian does not include those packages.
Fabrizio> First I would like to say that a package that installs under
Fabrizio> /opt is not a series B (meaning a less important thing) than
Fabrizio> a package that installs in /usr. I have clearly explaned the
Fabrizio> difference in my long post to debian-policy.
No, you seemed to have missed the point in your own
post. *Third party* software is what goes in /opt. Debian does not,
by definition, distribute third party software as a part of *our*
dstribution. Get it? We are the OS vendors.
Fabrizio> For the fact that emacs has put things in the /usr hierarchy without
Fabrizio> respecting the OS vendors ideas (as well as X11 did) is something
Fabrizio> historically accepted, without any influence on the useness of the
Fabrizio> program itself.
Debian is the OS vendor. Debian packages emacs. Nothing Debian
packages goes in /opt, or everything we package goes in /opt/ leaving
/usr empty (if you think Debian is not the OS Vendor)
Fabrizio> There's no room for flame.
You call this a flame? You have led a sheltered life ;-).
manoj
--
The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in greatest
concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied,
and of which he is profoundly ignorant. -- Shaftesbury
Manoj Srivastava <url:mailto:srivasta@acm.org>
Mobile, Alabama USA <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>
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