Re: kde and files location
On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Bart Schuller wrote:
> > Hmm. Well, the original netscape files are not part of Debian,
> > it is a binaty only distribution anyway (I don't know if that is
> > relevant), so the installer may legitimately put netscape under
> > /opt. I think.
>
> Here we go again. It's not a question of "can we put this under /opt?".
> Reread the first paragraph. Netscape can be trivially installed anywhere
> you want, it gets installed by Debian, so: it goes in /usr.
Yes; I agree that anything we (as OS vendors) can put in /usr, we should,
including Netscape. Were it not possible, I would not have any big
problems about using /opt for netscape though, since it comes as a binary
distribution from a third party.
> Can we please please *really* leave /opt alone without a d*mn good
> reason?
But installing packages in it is precisely what it is for. Not by the OS,
but for third party packages. What else do you use it for?
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