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On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:29:40PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:26:01 -0700 "Joshua J. Berry" |
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> <condordes@g.o> wrote: |
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> | > To this day I haven't heard a good definitin of "add-on" software in |
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> | > this context. I don't see qt/kde as being an addon to anything else. |
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> | I could easily see KDE/Qt being treated as an "add-on", given that (a) |
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> | they're not necessary for core system functionality (whatever that |
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> | means), and (b) they are both heavily-bloated, and you probably don't |
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> | want to pollute /usr... |
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> They're installed by the package manager. They are therefore not add-on. |
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No, that's not the way the FHS interprets "add-on". |
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"Distributions may install software in /opt, but must not modify or delete |
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software installed by the local system administrator without the assent of the |
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local system administrator." |
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By your logic, Gentoo has no business sticking *anything* in /opt. |
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I don't think packages in /opt (acroread, sun-jdk, openoffice, et al) violate |
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the FHS, and if they don't, then I don't see why KDE/Qt in /opt would. |
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Joshua J. Berry |
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"I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere." |
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