> > On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 11:58:51PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 04:49:21PM -0600, Paul Serice wrote: > > > I've just finished installing the right honorable Debian version of > > > KDE. I'm impressed with how well it works and how well it is > > > packaged. > > > > > > The README.debian file says the KDE team is not too happy with the > > > packaging. I'm wondering why. > > > > Maybe simple. They prefer the /opt way. But as it's a piece of > > software which can be fully integrated in the usual tree a set of > > /usr/bin /usr/lib, /var/lib/ &c should be used. > > If we put everything the size of KDE into /opt, we could just > about delete /usr now!
Indeed. I never quite understood this strategy of putting things under /opt. Once I had problems on a SUN because the system couldn't handle the length of the PATH an MANPATH variables anymore: every package gets its own bin, lib and man directory. We should never indulge in letting this plague enter the debian file system structure. Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .