On Wednesday 16 January 2002 12:20 pm, Jarno Elonen wrote: [snip] > That said, FHS hardly is, if I have understood correctly, "the optimal > solution" for anything but rather an educated tradeoff between usefulness > and compatibility with existing UNIX systems. People generally present > crique because they want things to improve, not because they want to prove > that someone is imbecile. KDE indeed *is* a very large system and if many > people feel that FHS or Debian policy are not up to date for desktop usage, > those issues should be seriously discussed, IMHO. >
exactly. standards should be a contemporary method of enhancing interoperability, not some facist ethic that proscribes discussion of improvement. ben
