Re: KDE filesystem structure
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On Wednesday 16 January 2002 06:44, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
>
> Read carefully what the FHS says. (You can find a copy in the
> debian-policy package.) According to section 3.8 /opt is for third-party
> addons. If KDE is packaged for Debian by Debian developers it is not an
> addon and _does_not_ belong in /opt.
>
ok. then, it's clear the other solution would do it.
> Well I hope I've convinced you that it isn't. Should such broken .debs
> actually make it into the archive they would get critical bugs almost
> immediately.
>
Reading James' mail convinced me that it was. Somehow I forgot about the
"third party" stuff. That was of course what prevented using /opt
> > I was going to suggest creating /usr/lib/kde3, make this KDE prefix with
> > symlinks to whichever directories are appropriate. For instance there
> > would be a /usr/share/kde3, and /usr/lib/kde3/share would point to
> > /usr/share/kde3/
>
> Wasn't that Ivans' plan?
>
No, the one above was mine, you can find the mails to see when and how I
suggested doing it, prior to anything Ivan said.
> > However, your quote does imply that redhat, suse, etc. packaging which
> > installs in /opt/kde3 is indeed FHS compliant. I wonder who was clueless
> > enough to think otherwise upon reading FHS.
>
> I for one. And SuSe Red Hat have never impressed me with their adherence
> to standards.
>
Eh, James wrote in a pretty convincing way. Sorry. It was my bad.
> > Note that *everybody* except debian uses /opt/kde3,
>
> If it's not Debian it's CRAP! :-)
>
> Oh and btw, /usr/X11R6 and /usr/games were both UNIX traditions from
> before Linux and were grandfathered in to the FHS. They really shouldn't
> exist.
Yes.. It does look inconsistent.
Regards,
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Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
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