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On Tuesday 02 Jul 2002 21:06, Luke Ravitch wrote: |
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> Though I'm generally a big supporter, I think the FHS might be wrong |
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> on this one. Gnome and KDE should go under /usr/gnome and /usr/kde. |
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> I do agree that adding an immediate subdirectory of /usr is not |
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> something that should be taken lightly. However, Gnome and KDE are |
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> significantly entrenched as part of Gentoo that they might warrant an |
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> X-like exception. |
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FHS says /usr should be read-only. Some people are already providing /usr |
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over network read-only. Just think about all of KDE's global |
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configuration files in /usr/share/config for RedHat and Mandrake; |
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/usr/kde/{2,3}/share/config here. Well perhaps global configs should be |
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served readonly, but on my system they seem to change quite often and |
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there's a mess of them (56 files and 3 directories). |
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My guess is it's probably unworkable. Now we're unlikely to convince KDE |
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developers to put these all in an /etc somewhere (my Mandrake box has 78 |
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/etc subdirectories already) and I'm quite happy to have the |
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/usr/kde/{2,3,4} for now. However, thinking about the read-only |
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requirement, I'd rather see /opt/kde/{2,3,4}. |
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BTW, posting this from the 'drake box due to hard disk crash on the gentoo |
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one. |
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Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 |
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AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 513MB Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin |
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KDE: 3.0.1 Qt: 3.0.4 up 5 hours 18 minutes. |
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