From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2929 invoked from network); 19 Sep 2004 20:15:36 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 19 Sep 2004 20:15:36 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1C9863-0000bu-P7 for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:15:43 +0000 Received: (qmail 15177 invoked by uid 89); 19 Sep 2004 20:15:34 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 21768 invoked from network); 19 Sep 2004 20:15:34 +0000 From: Dan Armak Reply-To: danarmak@gentoo.org Organization: Gentoo Technologies, Inc. To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:16:44 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200409192306.29528.danarmak@gentoo.org> <20040919200736.GA13163@deneb.condordes.net> In-Reply-To: <20040919200736.GA13163@deneb.condordes.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2264203.afI5gJYgSt"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409192316.44996.danarmak@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] any interest in removing /usr/qt and /usr/kde ? X-Archives-Salt: 71e1b6f3-6a72-4cad-8653-4cb7332d173e X-Archives-Hash: 114248dbc3e1615ff0491ae017c0c723 --nextPart2264203.afI5gJYgSt Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 19 September 2004 23:07, Joshua J. Berry wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:06:29PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: > > /usr/qt,kde was my decision at the time. I didn't see any obvious better > > FHS-mandated place to put them in. If there's a better place, I'd at > > least like to hear about it. > > Why /usr instead of /opt? Quoting FHS 2.3 (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html): "Purpose: /opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application softw= are=20 packages." To this day I haven't heard a good definitin of "add-on" software in this=20 context. I don't see qt/kde as being an addon to anything else. Moreover, as Paul points out, in Gentoo we only use /opt so far for=20 binary-only packages and for packages that don't obey the general unix=20 directory structur (/bin, /lib, /share, /include...). qt/kde has neither of= =20 these characteristics. The FHS says about /usr: "Large software packages must not use a direct=20 subdirectory under the /usr hierarchy." I agree this rules out what we're=20 doing. The problem is, noone ever proposed a better (more FHS-compliant)=20 solution. =2D-=20 Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key =46ingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951 --nextPart2264203.afI5gJYgSt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBTeksUI2RQ41fiVERAm21AJsG3QrEmj8URJt0jn2OGg4mS1W2mgCfckbP ZcsNqcNTuocKBlx6dnRkCyY= =vFTf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2264203.afI5gJYgSt--