-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok, the point has been raised before, but i'll just do it again. Because I think it is necessary. There was a poll on pclinuxonline recently, most of you might have read it. It was about the KDE3 install dir. Almost 3 quarters of the users did not want it in /usr/bin.
Very understandable to me. Not that I want to see it neccesarily in /opt/kde3, /usr/kde3 or /usr/kde/3 would be fine, but /usr/bin is just plain stupid. It gives you an enormous directory, without any hope of finding your specific kde program, and it makes it hard to have a 2 or more kde versions installed. There is, IMHO, no obvious reason to clog /usr/bin with GUI programs, we do not use X11R6 because it was so estetic, it was usefull to put your X proggies in a seperate dir, same goes for KDE AND gnome and whatever Desktop Env. you like. Seems that opt is to be for 'optitional software', one could argue about wherer or not DEs are optitional, but if not, /usr/kde((/)3) provide a better alternative that plain usr. On a side note, (some) KDE developpers themselves seem to think /usr/kde is much better than /usr/. Although I'm not sure wheter this is a valid argument or not. So, does anybody date to say otherwise? :) Danny - -- "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - -- Some wisdom from The Book. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE89qb8aeiN+EU2vEIRAsB8AKCTLR+a3fuVmK6Os4fAZaq6fZlrrgCgpW78 s8f2etAY7L0jEbE+6pgjSu8= =CmY+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
