On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Nicholas Petreley wrote: > Neither do I, but in some cases it really helps to define boundaries for > certain open source software. For example, it is a real mess to take a > distro that puts KDE in /usr/bin and then upgrade it with a package that > wants to put KDE in /opt/kde. With a little effort,you can get around such > things, or you can wait for your distro to come out with the upgrade, but > perhaps it doesn't have to be that way. I haven't given the solution to > this problem much thought - maybe someone else here has.
Relocateable packages are one, a statement from the KDE developers saying that "KDE belongs in /opt" or "KDE belongs in /usr" would be another. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Who is John Galt?" - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | | | | Linux Application Development -- http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad |
