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On Mittwoch 07 Januar 2009, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 10:17:56 Mark Haney wrote: |
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> > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > > On Mittwoch 07 Januar 2009, Mark Haney wrote: |
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> > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > >>> with kdeprefix everything lands in /usr/kde/<version> which is cool |
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> > >>> and usefull |
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> > >>> |
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> > >>> without kdeprefix everything ends in /usr which is stupid and hurts |
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> > >>> you if you want to try different kde versions - or have several |
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> > >>> versions installed so you can always go back easily when the newest |
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> > >>> one breaks. But it is FHS compliant. |
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> > >>> |
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> > >>> At the beginning gentoo was 'screw stupid standards, do the sensible |
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> > >>> thing' - but in the mean time the 'if there is a standard we have to |
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> > >>> adhere to it no matter how idiotic' crowd has got way to much power. |
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> I am apparently part of this crowd, but what you are saying seems to have a |
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> large amount of your opinion with a sprinkling of fact. Almost all other |
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> packages install into /usr and it is in fact a Gentoo policy that packages |
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> install into /usr and follow FHS where practical. This has been a policy |
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> for many years... |
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> Upstream does not support installing into prefixes and this has in fact |
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> made KDE difficult to support in the past, and has led to Gentoo specific |
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> bugs along with issues linking to the right libs etc... |
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kde was once installed into /opt so it wouldn't clutter /usr - which I always |
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liked in the past. KDE didn't clutter /usr like gnome does. That made it easy |
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to find and change everything/something belonging to kde. So when I arrived at |
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gentoo and saw kde going to /usr/kde I was a happy camper. |
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At the moment I am using the live ebuilds - and it saved my ass several times, |
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that I can make an easy backup of it (just tar it up) before the next upgrade. |
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Same for the 4.1.8X versions. Heck, in the past, I backed up 3.5 before every |
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version upgrade too, just in case - and it was a good thing to do so. |
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Why adhere to a standard that *increases* clutter and makes it harder to have |
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several versions of an app installed? |
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