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On Monday 20 September 2004 17:40, Dan Armak wrote: |
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> On Monday 20 September 2004 11:48, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > ps. The other "solution" could be to do it like the eclipse ebuild does |
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> > and install in /usr/lib/eclipse or /usr/lib/kde/3.3, although I even like |
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> > it less. I think that our solution is best. To be FHS compliant (better, |
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> > to sidestep the FHS) we could make a new subdir to /usr where we put |
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> > these packages. This does not violate the FHS as no package is directly |
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> > under /usr and we still follow our own guidelines, and provide a clean |
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> > solution. |
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> Since the issue's been raised, I've nothing against this proposal. We want |
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> to counter the possible future problem of other packages following kde's |
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> lead and supporting multiple versions in separate directories, because many |
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> directories under /usr really is messy. |
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> E.g., create a /usr/packages and put qt, kde and anything else there |
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> (/usr/packages/kde/3.2; ...). Who wants to take this proposal to the FHS |
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> people? :-) |
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I'll propose it to them in the case that there are more people that support |
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this. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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