Re: [gentoo-dev] any interest in removing /usr/qt and /usr/kde ?

[Malte S. Stretz]

On Monday 20 September 2004 20:30 CET Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Monday 20 September 2004 17:40, Dan Armak wrote:
> > On Monday 20 September 2004 11:48, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > > ps. The other "solution" could be to do it like the eclipse ebuild
> > > does and install in /usr/lib/eclipse or /usr/lib/kde/3.3, although I
> > > even like it less. I think that our solution is best. To be FHS
> > > compliant (better, to sidestep the FHS) we could make a new subdir to
> > > /usr where we put these packages. This does not violate the FHS as no
> > > package is directly under /usr and we still follow our own
> > > guidelines, and provide a clean solution.
> >
> > Since the issue's been raised, I've nothing against this proposal. We
> > want to counter the possible future problem of other packages following
> > kde's lead and supporting multiple versions in separate directories,
> > because many directories under /usr really is messy.
> >
> >  E.g., create a /usr/packages and put qt, kde and anything else there
> > (/usr/packages/kde/3.2; ...). Who wants to take this proposal to the
> > FHS people? :-)
>
> I'll propose it to them in the case that there are more people that
> support this.

To me the Carsten's proposal feels better.  Ie. split big "packages" 
into /usr/{bin,lib,share,doc,man}/<package>/<version>.  This if course 
could be written down in the FHS so those big packages make it possible to 
be split up in such a way :)

Cheers,
Malte

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