On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:58:08AM -0800, Oliver Johns wrote:
> The Debian policy is violated, in principle anyhow,
> by the whole X-windows system. It DOES have its own special
> subdirectories. The reason is that it is so large and
> complicated that good sense demands putting it in a special
> place to make it easier to keep track of it. The real question
> is whether kde and gnome have now reached that status. I think
> they have. For one thing, people who use both kde and gnome
> experience trouble knowing which app or which library or shared
> file belongs to which. It would be VERY helpful, and quite
> rational, for Debian to follow, or even one-up, the other dists
> and treat BOTH of those two mega-systems specially.
I will not, under any circumstances, touch /opt. I believe Debian policy
prohibits it anyway.
--
Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net>
<Tamriel> net: No, it's more if you have an infinite number of monkeys and
an infinite number of hard drives, one of them will eventually make
a distro, package it up and go an IPO.
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