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From: voguemaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Organization: Jurassic Park
Subject: Fwd: Re: KDE location [was Re: basic debian question]
Date: 02/09/02 11:29:35
What really annoys me about /usr/bin is that RH stuffed GCC's
binaries there. A developer wishing to upgrade to a newer compiler
version must use the package, because GCC binaries and libraries
are all over the place!!
If you compile a new version on your own, you can put it anywhere,
and in a centralized location, including header files.
It's annoying as hell.... Besides, where are the variables that tell the
system which compiler version to use ???
it's so annoying!!
Eli
02/09/02 10:05:29, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Arie Folger wrote:
>
>> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
>> > /opt and /usr/local are the same: not part of the "formal" system, and
>> > intended for extra packages. Although debian places some a few config
>> > files in /usr/local
>>
>> But quite some flamers are upset at RH for putting everything in /usr/bin. In
>> fact, a few months ago mosfet went beserk complaining about `ls /usr/bin|wc
>> -l` returing a number greater than 1500. So I wondered whether debian guys
>> were doing it differently.
>
>When you put all of KDE under /opt , you have to remember that you have
>config files not only under /etc, but also in /opt/kde[23]/share/config
>
>Debian (also redhat) finally moved those to /etc/kde[23]
>
>
>Actually, it seems an odd complaint to me: anything under /opt is for me
>"not part of the system". Redhat (and also mandrake and debian, which
>also put KDE under /usr) mearly say that there is one version of KDE that
>comes with the system, and is part of the system.
>
>It makes upgrades slightly more complicated, but then again, if you use
>RPMs, you shouldn't go around deleting an old installation. There are
>better ways.
>
>
>On my solaris at the CS faculty my PATH includes (not limited to):
>
>/usr/bin , /usr/local/bin , /opt/sfw/bin , /opt/sfw/gnome/bin ,
>/opt/sfw/kde/bin
>
>And I don't like it better.
>
>--
>Tzafrir Cohen
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
>
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