Quoting Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Oh. The full magnitude of the problem suddenly dawns on me. > > /opt is bad because it's contents are not supposed to be dependent on > anything else. /usr/local is bad because it's meant for non-distribution > packages. /usr/share is bad because it's meant for read-only data. That > only leaves /usr, but that conflicts with FHS. > > I guess that all that can be done is change the FHS. I'll post an email > to the LSB-Future mailing list tomorrow. They are currently discussing > what to do about KDE and Gnome. Perhaps a not-too-distant version of the > LSB will offer a solution.
Whatever solution is adopted should ideally provide a *general* solution to this. Enlightenment, TheNextNewHugeProject, and any number of other things could benefit as well. Indeed, it would be nice if multiple versions of anything people feel they need to keep multiple versions around for could be supported. In other words, I'd be disappointed if /usr/kde, /usr/qt, and /usr/gnome were simply added to the 'exceptions list' for /usr (joining its only current member, 'X11R6'). A scalable solution, mappable to any future large project, is what IMHO is needed...the easiest and most obvious possibility being the addition of a directory such as /usr/pkg, which in turn can contain /usr/pkg/kde/3, /usr/pkg/gnome/2.2, /usr/pkg/qt/3, and so on. my 2 cents, Jean. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
