From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28283 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2004 15:53:32 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 20 Sep 2004 15:53:32 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1C9QTs-00073j-Bl for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:53:32 +0000 Received: (qmail 873 invoked by uid 89); 20 Sep 2004 15:53:05 +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 21987 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2004 15:53:04 +0000 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:56:29 -0400 Message-ID: <8149d45f8542724f660586f0d314123d@mudra> MIME-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Pantomime 1.2.0) From: Armando Di Cianno To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200409201147.18918@malte.stretz.eu.org> X-Image-URL: http://armando.xylite.com/images/me64x64.tiff X-Mailer: GNUMail (Version 1.2.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] any interest in removing /usr/qt and /usr/kde ? X-Archives-Salt: 5013019b-62ec-4607-a196-2a42bfe509d6 X-Archives-Hash: b32152220525da85591e6ccaecf0bb79 On 2004-09-20 05:47:18 -0400 Malte S. Stretz wrote: > I don't propose to create something completely new like, say, what > Apple uses > in MacOS X, just to refine the current state of art. As I said, it's > not > like we lack space in / or need to look like a "real" SysV system. > Linux (or > GNU/Linux if you prefer that) is IMO about invention, so why do we > try to > cram everything into the olde Unix directory structure while it > obviously > doesn't fit? Just to be ontologically aligned with those that created the NeXTStep hierarchy, OS X (NeXTStep/OpenStep's logical descendants [alongside GNUstep]) has it's own UNIX-y/FHS-y hierarchy, from the BSD tools, _and_ a NeXT-y hierarchy. I chimed in before about what I should do with GNUstep, but whereever in the UNIX-y hierarchy it lives, it's packages are going to be installed underneath it, e.g /opt/GNUstep, /usr/GNUstep, etc. Classically, on UNIX-y systems ('cause it can run on Windows, too) the preferred spot is /usr/GNUstep. This was likely chosen by the original authors thinking "Hey, that's what X11 did...". This is a concern for me, not because GNUstep is "big" and will cause "pollution," but because it is _different_ than what the FHS was designed for. __armando -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list