Re: KDE filesystem structure
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On Tuesday 15 January 2002 23:44, Jens Benecke wrote:
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> Yes, /opt can stay taboo. Right. What about additional subdirs in /usr?
>
> Actually, *my* problem with the current setup would be partly solved if
> mutually incompatible versions of KDE used seperate data directories.
> Something like /usr/share/applnk{2,3}, ~/.kde{2,3} etc. The binaries would
> have to be seperated as well, though. Somehow.
>
See my earlier suggestion. KDE version x goes into --> /usr/lib/kdex
To the KDE it looks as if everything is under that tree with aid of symlinks.
However, we do install files where they belong (ro arch indep files in
/usr/share/kde3, libraries in /usr/lib .... etc) so that everything is FHS
compliant and we keep feeling warm and fuzzy.
Thanks,
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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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