On Monday 20 September 2004 08:09, Joshua J. Berry wrote:

> /opt keeps both groups happy.  It keeps KDE separate (and lets you
> install multiple versions side-by-side), and it follows the FHS. 
> Except now we have a third group of people who don't like /opt ... and
> I guess I don't understand why that is.  What do people have against
> /opt (yes, I know about current Gentoo policy)?

There are two reasons:
- It is against gentoo policy
- It is against the FHS as KDE is not a standalone package, but it has a
  significant amount of dependant packages. One of the rules for /opt is
  that no package in /usr should depend on it. As dependend packages are
  installed in /usr this is clearly a violation.

Paul

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