-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 January 2002 23:38, Daniel Stone wrote: > > We can't touch what an admin puts there without violating the FHS. I > don't think that typing "apt-get install kde" is explicit assent, > because we haven't asked the user a question like: "Hi, just calling to > say that we're going to stomp all over your installation in /opt! Cool? > (y/n)". > > It's even less cool because we do what no other Debian package has ever > done - install to /opt. Remember that principle of least surprise I told > you about a while ago? > > Don't mess with it.
The problem is rather that it's impossible for _any_ distribution to provide the kind of assent that would be better than the question you write above. It's just that FHS is not well versed on this matter. I think they should clarify what "assent" is in this case. Thanks, - -- Eray Ozkural (exa) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8R0U4fAeuFodNU5wRAsOnAKCDR+UR05j+Iw8leIE1Xbc7RThVcwCePYk+ nyp6BSPUer+McxAJa+L0VhM= =vGML -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
