Re: [kde] setting an /opt precedent
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On Thursday 17 January 2002 23:38, Daniel Stone wrote:
>
> We can't touch what an admin puts there without violating the FHS. I
> don't think that typing "apt-get install kde" is explicit assent,
> because we haven't asked the user a question like: "Hi, just calling to
> say that we're going to stomp all over your installation in /opt! Cool?
> (y/n)".
>
> It's even less cool because we do what no other Debian package has ever
> done - install to /opt. Remember that principle of least surprise I told
> you about a while ago?
>
> Don't mess with it.
The problem is rather that it's impossible for _any_ distribution to provide
the kind of assent that would be better than the question you write above.
It's just that FHS is not well versed on this matter. I think they should
clarify what "assent" is in this case.
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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