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On Monday 20 September 2004 00:23, Joshua J. Berry wrote: |
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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 |
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> delete software installed by the local system administrator without the |
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> assent of the 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) |
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> violate the FHS, and if they don't, then I don't see why KDE/Qt in /opt |
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> would. |
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The big difference is there are many packages that actively depend on kde. |
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While all those other packages can be seen as "self-contained". They are |
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leaf nodes in the dependency tree. Kde certainly isn't (well, kdelibs and |
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kdebase at least). |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |