begin Michael Hipp's quote: | Ok, perhaps. But how hard is it to say "pick one, any one, and go | with it". It's a Jihad because people make it so, not because of | some compelling technical reason.
but, you see, there *is* a compelling technical reason. putting it in /usr makes life very difficult for the non-weenies who compile their own stuff rather than lap up whatever the distribution packages. this is because backing up the previous version is extremely difficult, and because desktops invlove multiple required packages, if the second or third package compile fails though "make install" was done on the first one, a broken desktop is the result. which is to say that putting desktops in /usr was done for the convenience of red hat software, and for no other reason. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
