Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the FHS can't be followed

[Peter Ruskin <aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com>]

On Tuesday 02 Jul 2002 21:06, Luke Ravitch wrote:
> Though I'm generally a big supporter, I think the FHS might be wrong
> on this one.  Gnome and KDE should go under /usr/gnome and /usr/kde.
> I do agree that adding an immediate subdirectory of /usr is not
> something that should be taken lightly.  However, Gnome and KDE are
> significantly entrenched as part of Gentoo that they might warrant an
> X-like exception.

FHS says /usr should be read-only.  Some people are already providing /usr 
over network read-only.  Just think about all of KDE's global 
configuration files in /usr/share/config for RedHat and Mandrake; 
/usr/kde/{2,3}/share/config here.  Well perhaps global configs should be 
served readonly, but on my system they seem to change quite often and 
there's a mess of them (56 files and 3 directories).

My guess is it's probably unworkable.  Now we're unlikely to convince KDE 
developers to put these all in an /etc somewhere (my Mandrake box has 78 
/etc subdirectories already) and I'm quite happy to have the 
/usr/kde/{2,3,4} for now.  However, thinking about the read-only 
requirement, I'd rather see /opt/kde/{2,3,4}.

BTW, posting this from the 'drake box due to hard disk crash on the gentoo 
one.
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