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From: Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FHS compliant KDE install and multi-version support
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:33:02
Message-Id: 48C3D809.7010507@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] FHS compliant KDE install and multi-version support by Josh Saddler
1 Josh Saddler wrote:
2 > In fairness, their priority is whatever they *want* to do. No one has
3 > the right to dictate what they should and should not be doing -- except
4 > themselves. Maybe figuring out the install path is a precursor to all that?
5 >
6
7 Couldn't agree more that (within reason) the ebuild team really ought to
8 be making the decisions since they have to implement it.
9
10 As far as the benefits of FHS-compliance goes - I for one would love to
11 not have to reference paths to kde files that change every time a new
12 version comes out. Then again, that could potentially be solved with
13 symlinks as is commonly done with /usr/src/linux.