From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_REJECT, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from colossus.systems.pipex.net (colossus.systems.pipex.net [62.190.223.73]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ABE3ABD5F for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:11:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: from penguin.ruskin (62-241-174-127.dsl.pipex.com [62.241.174.127]) by colossus.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C622816000299 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 02:11:04 +0100 (BST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Peter Ruskin To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the FHS can't be followed Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 02:10:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 References: <20020701173735.5d1093ae.erichey2@attbi.com> <200207021410.00311.jsmith@kcco.com> <20020702200608.GB5646@ogremage.dslxtreme.com> In-Reply-To: <20020702200608.GB5646@ogremage.dslxtreme.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207030210.42348.aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com> Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 09288b14-6ce9-4a4b-a9c1-0b8fd4f0e58a X-Archives-Hash: b2457dac357d9251a82e45f22121c083 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. -- Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 513MB Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin KDE: 3.0.1 Qt: 3.0.4 up 5 hours 18 minutes. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~