On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Erik Troan wrote: > 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.
The KDE tradition was to package the lot in /opt/kde long before Red Hat started to package it. As one of the package builders at the time I should know ;-) Hugo. -- Hugo van der Kooij; Oranje Nassaustraat 16; 3155 VJ Maasland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~hvdkooij/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Use of any of my email addresses for unsollicited (commercial) email is a clear intrusion of my privacy and illegal!
