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From: Simon Watson <simon@×××××××.uk>
To: danarmak@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] any interest in removing /usr/qt and /usr/kde ?
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 07:48:16
Message-Id: 414E8B7C.4080901@swat.me.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] any interest in removing /usr/qt and /usr/kde ? by Dan Armak
1 Dan Armak wrote:
2 > The FHS says about /usr: "Large software packages must not use a direct
3 > subdirectory under the /usr hierarchy." I agree this rules out what we're
4 > doing. The problem is, noone ever proposed a better (more FHS-compliant)
5 > solution.
6 >
7
8 How about a USE flag or such like, for specifying FHS compliancy?
9 Whereby if specified QT/KDE would be installed as per FHS, but with a
10 warning that this means SLOTting no longer works?
11
12 Simon
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