-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 January 2002 06:44, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > Read carefully what the FHS says. (You can find a copy in the > debian-policy package.) According to section 3.8 /opt is for third-party > addons. If KDE is packaged for Debian by Debian developers it is not an > addon and _does_not_ belong in /opt. >
ok. then, it's clear the other solution would do it. > Well I hope I've convinced you that it isn't. Should such broken .debs > actually make it into the archive they would get critical bugs almost > immediately. > Reading James' mail convinced me that it was. Somehow I forgot about the "third party" stuff. That was of course what prevented using /opt > > I was going to suggest creating /usr/lib/kde3, make this KDE prefix with > > symlinks to whichever directories are appropriate. For instance there > > would be a /usr/share/kde3, and /usr/lib/kde3/share would point to > > /usr/share/kde3/ > > Wasn't that Ivans' plan? > No, the one above was mine, you can find the mails to see when and how I suggested doing it, prior to anything Ivan said. > > However, your quote does imply that redhat, suse, etc. packaging which > > installs in /opt/kde3 is indeed FHS compliant. I wonder who was clueless > > enough to think otherwise upon reading FHS. > > I for one. And SuSe Red Hat have never impressed me with their adherence > to standards. > Eh, James wrote in a pretty convincing way. Sorry. It was my bad. > > Note that *everybody* except debian uses /opt/kde3, > > If it's not Debian it's CRAP! :-) > > Oh and btw, /usr/X11R6 and /usr/games were both UNIX traditions from > before Linux and were grandfathered in to the FHS. They really shouldn't > exist. Yes.. It does look inconsistent. Regards, - -- Eray Ozkural (exa) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8RRH2fAeuFodNU5wRAlaTAJ9oJCKCAdsgZ/V1uOrWP76IUazWhQCcDwXx gTw3d6RUWIot7TAXqX8HRA0= =24mr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
