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On Sunday 19 September 2004 22:37 CET Dan Armak wrote: |
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> On Sunday 19 September 2004 23:26, Joshua J. Berry wrote: |
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> >[...] |
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> > I really do think this is what /opt was intended for. "Add-on" sounds |
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> > to me like it's one of those purposefully open-ended words that you can |
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> > interpret however you like. Actually, the whole section on /opt in the |
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> > FHS reads that way ... |
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> Well, I simply don't know what they mean by add-on, so obviously you can |
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> interpret it however you like :-) |
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> However, isn't there -any- consensus on what this is supposed to mean? |
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> Can we just ask the FHS guys if this is so unclear? (And cf. what Ciaran |
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> just replied.) |
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I'll ask Daniel Quinlan what he things when pops online. |
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But currently each distro does it how the maintainer like it (or interprets |
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the FHS) -- Gentoo uses /usr/kde, SuSE /opt/kde, RedHat something else, and |
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I think Debian throws all the stuff into /usr. To me this sounds like the |
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FHS is flawed if it comes to stuff like this. Even the /usr/X11R6 |
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directory is only there because it was always there though an alternative |
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is missing, too. |
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Ironically was there lately a discussion on the KDE core-devel list if the |
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default location for KDE should be /opt/kde for KDE 4 (instead |
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of /usr/local). |
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If something is broken, it's normally the better to fix it instead of |
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working around. So maybe the FHS should be refined to support what is |
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needed by either adding an additional subdirectory below /usr or a |
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completely new root-level directory. I mean it's not like the place in / |
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is limited by anything and /svc was also added lately (and btw Linux' /sys |
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is completely against the FHS). |
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Another thing which cropped up in combination with the macchanger ebuild |
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(the issue is in b.g.o) was that sometimes shomething like /share |
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or /lib/share is needed. |
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The current FHS mailinglist is more a spamtrap than anything. Maybe a new |
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one should be created. There a group of people consisting of (a) the |
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previous FHS contributors (b) somebody from each big distro and (c) some |
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people from the bigger desktop environments (or freedesktop.org) can get |
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together and try to fix all the current issues with the FHS and create a |
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version 3.0. |
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Cheers, |
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Malte |
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[SGT] Simon G. Tatham: "How to Report Bugs Effectively" |
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<http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html> |
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[ESR] Eric S. Raymond: "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" |
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<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> |
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