i think it's time for a general discussion : where should debian place files ? /usr/local is local, so we should not touch it. but there are several big packages, that could go into /opt.
current policy is the hardest way : everything in /usr, nothing in /opt. we should discuss whether we want to keep this hard line, and if we weaken our policy, how we should decide if a package should go in /opt or not. fsstnd sais nothing about /opt, the proposed addition talks about "add-on application software packages". i could not find a fhs draft. this is not a debian problem. i talked to people from 3 other distributions, and they have the same problems (suse,delix,lst/caldera). andreas p.s.: current way works better than expected - i got kde to fit into /usr.
