On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:39:26PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2002 14:09, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > > > > > > You say that like it's a good thing. Mosfet's on drugs. > > > > It just happens that piece by Mosfet is well written. > > > > Although I cant see how putting kde in /opt/kde would be more logical.. If > > anywhere, I would put it in /usr/kde. Like X it is a system on its own, "A > > system within the system". > > We call that a "subsystem" in engineering. Heh :) > > Generally speaking, it's good design if a system can have physical modularity > to some extent, ie logical modularity is evident in the case of X11 but > physical modularity makes it more sensible to deal with. > > Therefore, a system that uses an efficient unified filesystem implementation > instead of a packaging system to keep track of file locations would be much > more consistent than Debian.[*] I'm hoping to see something like that with > the use of more advanced kernels. > > Thanks, > > [*] So every package looks like X11. Packaging system's responsibility is > making sure that the system is consistent and in a working state rather than > showing you which file is stored where... export PATH=$PATH:/opt/kde/bin:/opt/kde3/kin:/opt/qt/bin:/opt/apache/bin:/opt/apache2/bin:/opt/koffice/bin:/opt/gcc/bin:... NO. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net> <MadHack> my sister's getting married <MadHack> she's still in el paso <willy> your borther must be a very happy man
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