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On 2002-07-02 12:09, Jean-Michel Smith <jsmith@××××.com> wrote: |
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> However, I'm a little confused why (or how) it was decided that /opt |
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> would be an inappropriate place to have put this. In other words, |
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> why is /usr/kde/3 and /usr/kde/2 better than /opt/kde/3 and |
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> /opt/kde/2? I'm not criticizing (I have no real opinion on FHS |
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> compliance, or lack thereof, at all), I'm just wondering what the |
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> rationale is for not wanting to put things like this in /opt. |
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My feeling is that nothing in the /usr tree should depend on anything |
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in /opt. Things in /opt are meant to be self-contained. If we put |
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Gnome and KDE in /opt, where do we put apps that optionally depend on |
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them? E.g, XMMS isn't really a gnome app (and so shouldn't be under |
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/opt/gnome) but can have Gnome dependencies (for the applet). |
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Gnome and KDE are most like X. X has its own directory in /usr. It |
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is part of the system. As such, it's not such a big deal if programs |
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that depend on X live outside the X tree. Of course, the FHS |
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considers /usr/X11 an unfortunate goof that, sadly, needs to be kept |
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around because of the tremendous inertia behind it. |
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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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Another idea (likely a better one) is to put Gnome and KDE in their |
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own directories under /usr/X11R6. FreeBSD has GTK and Gnome apps (I |
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don't know what they do with KDE, I imagine it's similar) in the X11 |
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tree. That's always seemed right to me. But they put them in there |
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like we dump Gnome into /usr, so there isn't the advantage of separate |
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trees for separate versions. I think /usr/X11R6/gnome and |
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/usr/X11R6/kde trees could really work out well. And I don't think |
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the FHS regulates the contents of the X11 tree, so we'd keep them |
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happy as well. |
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My $0.02. |
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Luke |
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