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On Monday 20 September 2004 08:09, Joshua J. Berry wrote: |
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> /opt keeps both groups happy. It keeps KDE separate (and lets you |
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> install multiple versions side-by-side), and it follows the FHS. |
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> Except now we have a third group of people who don't like /opt ... and |
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> I guess I don't understand why that is. What do people have against |
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> /opt (yes, I know about current Gentoo policy)? |
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There are two reasons: |
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- It is against gentoo policy |
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- It is against the FHS as KDE is not a standalone package, but it has a |
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significant amount of dependant packages. One of the rules for /opt is |
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that no package in /usr should depend on it. As dependend packages are |
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installed in /usr this is clearly a violation. |
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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 |