Re: [gentoo-dev] any interest in removing /usr/qt and /usr/kde ?

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Monday 20 September 2004 19:35, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> On Monday 20 September 2004 18:37, Dan Armak wrote:
> > The kde directories include things under
> > share/, like various docs, that make absolutely no sense somewhere
> > under /usr/lib.
>
> Exactly this does not conform to the FHS iirc.
>
> # The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, must be
> # in /usr/share, if the corresponding subsystem is installed:
> #dict, doc, games, info, locale, nls, sgml, terminfo, database, tmac, xml,
> #zoneinfo
> #It is recommended that application-specific, architecture-independent
> #directories be placed here.
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
>
> Which means e.g. kde's docs should go in /usr/share/doc/kde. Since we want
> to allow multiple kde versions, it would need to be
> either /usr/share/doc/kde/X.Y or /usr/share/doc/kdeX.Y. We do the latter
> for most ebuilds, since it is - in case of docs at least - policy to
> install them in ${D}/usr/share/docs/${PF}

No, it sais that those dirs should exist. Not that all docs should go there. 
In any case following that kind of policy would be pain in the ass for many 
packages that have different opinions.

>
> > I think that if we have to move,
> > a /usr/packages/{kde,qt}/<version> pattern is best. ('patterns'
> > apparently being replaced by a four-letter name - could someone enlighten
> > me why that would be necessary?)
>
> /usr/packages/whatever is as FHS "conform" as /usr/kde.

Probably more as it is not indirect, the FHS does not say anywhere that more 
dirs are not allowed they just specify the minimal set. It is perfectly legal 
to make aditions that do not violate the rules in the FHS. The /usr/packages 
idea does not violate this idea.

> From my point of view the kde location is not a big and if we want to
> change something, let's do it with qt/kde 4.

I don't mind keeping things this way, but people seem to want it.

Paul

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