-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 May 2002 04:56 pm, you wrote:
> > This was probably because they had KDE 2.2 installed with prefix of > /usr, and don't want to break it. The question was not well posed, as it > should have stated specifically that it only applies to 8.2 (which is > what I assumed when I voted for /opt/kde3). This is probably not true, because most people there were using 3.0.1 which already went in /usr (untill now). As you can see, we both use no arguments:) Maybe the question was not well posed, but I read the posts as well. And they made a different impression on me (not breaking things was not the major argument). Maybe the question can be asked in a better way, on mdk forum? Since we talking numbers, note that, untill now, two of the replies on this list also thought it would be a good idea. You were the only negative one... > So do you want: > 1)A 5kB PATH variable? (If you do this with KDE, why not Gnome, mozilla, > emacs etc? Where do you stop?) Did I talk about 5 kB? And if so, is anything fundamently wrong with that? It is definatly not worse than a thousand binaries in one path, scrolling for a few seconds when you type ls. //Following is no argument! Ofcourse, we could put everything in /, you must love that kind of a distro! /X /libKDE.so /kmail /evolution /syslog /mount /XF86Config And ofcourse...... a 1 B PATH variable!!! Great for PDA's, great memory conservation! no more need for cd.., filemanagers are history! no more ld.conf needed! The ultimate Easy 2 Use linux! //EOF I think it should be done for DE, not for single packages like mozilla, who have only 1 or 2 executables. On the other hand, it is not very un-unix like to store everything in its own dir. Some of the distro's put KDE in it's own dir, it is not without reason. > > What's wrong with k[TAB]? Nothing really, exept that there are a lot of other proggies starting with a K. It was just a minor point. > > And, how does putting KDE in /usr make it easier to have two versions of > KDE installed. We have KDE3 in /opt/kde3 specifically to allow that! > Yes, and it costs a lot of work for the packager to build it different for each version. And it is very inconsistant in this way. Now KDE2 is in usr, next time KDE3 goes in /usr. > No. KDE3 _IS_ _OPTIONAL_ for _Mandrake 8.2_. That is why cooker has it > in /usr. Point taken and agreed that THAT is why 8.2 has it in /opt, NOT that cooker has it in /usr, we call that a 'drog - reden' in dutch. Since it is similar to African, maybe you understand it? > Another person who believes they must set a reply-to to the same address > they send from! Why do they all do this?!@!#@!$!# I didn't set it, but didn't bother to delete this from kmail. Sorry, does it really bother you that much? Danny - -- "What the hell, he thought, you're only young once, and threw himself out of the window. That would at least keep the element of surprise on his side." - -- Ford outwitting a Vogon with a rocket launcher by going into another certain death situation. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE899JTaeiN+EU2vEIRAk8dAKCp5FecPnxglCxTB+VZ86aUEHUPXwCglvHE L/Qn0kR6h/5nVVmompBRmds= =ce/V -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
