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=3.7 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE, KB_DATE_CONTAINS_TAB,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from uni-paderborn.de (uni-paderborn.de [131.234.22.30]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F13D0ABD6D; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 07:03:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from skylla ([131.234.36.174]:47514 "EHLO skylla.uni-paderborn.de") by mail.uni-paderborn.de with ESMTP id ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:02:37 +0200 Received: from upb.de (IDENT:8479@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skylla.uni-paderborn.de (8.11.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g62C2RP12234; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:02:27 +0200 Message-ID: <3D219653.3060001@upb.de> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 14:02:27 +0200 From: Alexander Gretencord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020605 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Collins Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org, gentoo Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo & fhs References: <20020701173735.5d1093ae.erichey2@attbi.com> <20020702025057.0cada85f.spider@gentoo.org> <20020701190627.28c32c2e.erichey2@attbi.com> <20020702034731.3c81463f.spider@gentoo.org> <20020701203819.4e7d6935.erichey2@attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2bbaf241-5751-4ad9-b7ff-e81fec5c5ae4 X-Archives-Hash: 5e5b6cca1b4d6a44e6701c8fa77fd14f Collins wrote: >OK, that much is clear. So how do you resolve /usr/kde/2 ... with the >prohibition you've cited? > >"Large software packages must not use a direct subdirectory under the >/usr hierarchy." > > > I've talked about this to a gentoo dev too. The problem is that gentoo considers everything that's not binary-only part of the system (I think that's ok by the definition as they "ship" that software with their distribution (if you made a cd)). That sentence about "no subdirs in /usr" makes the situation difficult for gentoo. /usr/local is for the local administrator so gentoo can't install there, gentoo has a rule that only binary packages get into /opt, but /opt is the only part of the filesystem that subdirs are allowed in for individual packages according to the fhs. And you can really understand why one wouldn't want to have gnome or kde installed directly into /usr (which would be the only gentoo+fhs compliant solution). Can anyone lighten me up on why there should be no subdirs in /usr ? Alex