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On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:26:01 -0700 "Joshua J. Berry" |
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<condordes@g.o> wrote: |
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| > To this day I haven't heard a good definitin of "add-on" software in |
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| > this context. I don't see qt/kde as being an addon to anything else. |
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| I could easily see KDE/Qt being treated as an "add-on", given that (a) |
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| they're not necessary for core system functionality (whatever that |
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| means), and (b) they are both heavily-bloated, and you probably don't |
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| want to pollute /usr... |
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They're installed by the package manager. They are therefore not add-on. |
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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 |
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| can interpret however you like. Actually, the whole section on /opt |
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| in the FHS reads that way... |
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No, /opt was intended as a temporary place for Sun to stick things until |
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they decided where in /usr they should go. Unfortunately, someone messed |
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up and /opt became widely used. The conventional non-screwed-up place is |
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/usr/kde/whatever, but FHS doesn't like this for some bizarre reason. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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