From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] any interest in removing /usr/qt and /usr/kde ?
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:17:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409202117.34236.carlo@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409202052.36088.pauldv@gentoo.org>
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On Monday 20 September 2004 20:52, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> No, it sais that those dirs should exist. Not that all docs should go
> there. In any case following that kind of policy would be pain in the ass
> for many packages that have different opinions.
Imho it is a better to follow a standard as strict as possible. The next one
sees it a bit more lax and in the end you can forget the standard.
> > /usr/packages/whatever is as FHS "conform" as /usr/kde.
>
> Probably more as it is not indirect, the FHS does not say anywhere that
> more dirs are not allowed they just specify the minimal set.
#Chapter 4. The /usr Hierarchy
#Purpose
#/usr is the second major section of the filesystem. /usr is shareable,
#read-only data. That means that /usr should be shareable between various
#FHS-compliant hosts and must not be written to. Any information that is
#host-specific or varies with time is stored elsewhere.
#Large software packages must not use a direct subdirectory under the /usr
#hierarchy
O.k., that doesn't forbid to add another directory and to use this one as a
new base, but it still doesn't make sense to me. I see this formulation more
as a gap in the standard. Either unintended or as a backwards compatibility
thing to get everyone into the boat.
> > 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.
>
> I don't mind keeping things this way, but people seem to want it.
But they don't have to deal with the implications. Also users with a larger
install base may have their backup scripts and so on, so such a decision
should not be made for kde 3.x.
Carsten.
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-19 19:50 [gentoo-dev] any interest in removing /usr/qt and /usr/kde ? Thomas Weidner
2004-09-19 19:52 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-09-19 20:07 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-09-19 20:06 ` Dan Armak
2004-09-19 20:07 ` Joshua J. Berry
2004-09-19 20:13 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-09-19 20:16 ` Dan Armak
2004-09-19 20:26 ` Joshua J. Berry
2004-09-19 20:29 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-09-19 22:23 ` Joshua J. Berry
2004-09-20 8:41 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-09-19 20:37 ` Dan Armak
2004-09-19 21:23 ` Malte S. Stretz
2004-09-19 23:38 ` Armando Di Cianno
2004-09-20 8:48 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-09-20 9:47 ` Malte S. Stretz
2004-09-20 15:56 ` Armando Di Cianno
2004-09-20 19:52 ` Malte S. Stretz
2004-09-20 15:40 ` Dan Armak
2004-09-20 18:30 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-09-20 19:45 ` Malte S. Stretz
2004-09-19 22:35 ` Joshua J. Berry
2004-09-20 4:10 ` Dan Armak
2004-09-20 4:27 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-09-20 4:47 ` Luke-Jr
2004-09-20 6:09 ` Joshua J. Berry
2004-09-20 9:05 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-09-20 15:55 ` Sami Samhuri
2004-09-20 16:22 ` Carsten Lohrke
2004-09-20 16:36 ` Malte S. Stretz
2004-09-20 16:44 ` Dan Armak
2004-09-20 17:19 ` Malte S. Stretz
2004-09-20 17:36 ` Dan Armak
2004-09-20 22:58 ` foser
2004-09-20 17:42 ` Carsten Lohrke
2004-09-20 16:37 ` Dan Armak
2004-09-20 17:35 ` Carsten Lohrke
2004-09-20 18:52 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-09-20 19:17 ` Carsten Lohrke [this message]
2004-09-21 10:47 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2004-09-21 11:02 ` Duncan
2004-09-21 12:05 ` Carsten Lohrke
2004-09-21 4:58 ` Joel Konkle-Parker
2004-09-21 9:49 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-09-20 7:49 ` [gentoo-dev] " Simon Watson
2004-09-19 20:09 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-09-28 2:51 ` [gentoo-dev] " John Croisant
2004-09-28 8:19 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-09-28 9:24 ` Peter Ruskin
2004-09-28 9:37 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-09-28 20:32 ` John Croisant
2004-09-29 9:07 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-09-19 21:55 ` [gentoo-dev] " Luke-Jr
2004-09-19 23:06 ` [gentoo-dev] " Thomas Weidner
2004-09-20 0:03 ` Luke-Jr
2004-09-20 0:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-09-20 3:50 ` Luke-Jr
2004-09-21 5:10 ` Joel Konkle-Parker
2004-09-21 17:29 ` Helmar Wieland
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