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On Sunday 19 September 2004 23:07, Joshua J. Berry wrote: |
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> On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:06:29PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: |
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> > /usr/qt,kde was my decision at the time. I didn't see any obvious better |
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> > FHS-mandated place to put them in. If there's a better place, I'd at |
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> > least like to hear about it. |
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> Why /usr instead of /opt? |
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Quoting FHS 2.3 (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html): |
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"Purpose: /opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software |
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packages." |
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To this day I haven't heard a good definitin of "add-on" software in this |
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context. I don't see qt/kde as being an addon to anything else. |
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Moreover, as Paul points out, in Gentoo we only use /opt so far for |
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binary-only packages and for packages that don't obey the general unix |
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directory structur (/bin, /lib, /share, /include...). qt/kde has neither of |
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these characteristics. |
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The FHS says about /usr: "Large software packages must not use a direct |
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subdirectory under the /usr hierarchy." I agree this rules out what we're |
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doing. The problem is, noone ever proposed a better (more FHS-compliant) |
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solution. |
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-- |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |
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