Delete now if you are not interested. After the interchange with dep this weeked, I submitted a query to gentoo to get their understanding of the fhs and what is appropriate for gentoo. I got back quite a few responses from developers and users.
Not surprisingly, no one at gentoo is interested in "stomping all over the fhs,", as alleged earlier. The essential picture is this: 1) gentoo has made a conscious effort to structure their distro according to the fhs, including making changes to remove things like kde from /opt because they were told that was not allowed. 2) The fhs does not really provide a very good (or any, IMO) solution for large packages with multiple, incompatible versions and other dependancies. 3) It's not a good idea (per gentoo) to have products in the /usr hierarchy dependant on products in the /opt hierarchy and vice versa, as would be the case with both kde and gnome offerings, since many simple packages that are installed in the /usr hierarchy depend on either kde or gnome. 4) Gentoo believes that they have a very workable comprimise. 5) Following the fhs is infinitely more complex and frustrating than dep would have you believe. 6) gentoo would love to have someone with greater understanding of the fhs make concrete suggestions for improvements in this respect. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are still open lists, so present your concrete suggestions on one of these lists. Enjoy, -- Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
