On Monday 20 September 2004 18:37, Dan Armak wrote:
> The kde directories include things under
> share/, like various docs, that make absolutely no sense somewhere
> under /usr/lib. 
Exactly this does not conform to the FHS iirc. 

# The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, must be
# in /usr/share, if the corresponding subsystem is installed:
#dict, doc, games, info, locale, nls, sgml, terminfo, database, tmac, xml,
#zoneinfo
#It is recommended that application-specific, architecture-independent
#directories be placed here.
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

Which means e.g. kde's docs should go in /usr/share/doc/kde. Since we want to 
allow multiple kde versions, it would need to be 
either /usr/share/doc/kde/X.Y or /usr/share/doc/kdeX.Y. We do the latter for 
most ebuilds, since it is - in case of docs at least - policy to install them 
in ${D}/usr/share/docs/${PF}

> I think that if we have to move,
> a /usr/packages/{kde,qt}/<version> pattern is best. ('patterns' apparently
> being replaced by a four-letter name - could someone enlighten me why that
> would be necessary?)

/usr/packages/whatever is as FHS "conform" as /usr/kde.


From my point of view the kde location is not a big and if we want to change 
something, let's do it with qt/kde 4.


Carsten