On Dec 11, 2007 5:47 PM, Alan DuBoff <alan.duboff at sun.com> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > This list is not moderated. That means you have to endure communications > > you want and those you do not want. If you don't want to read my emails, > > then route them to /dev/null. > > Look, this really is getting us nowhere. Let's please forget this topic > for the time being, it will need to be revisited as the software should > and HOPEFULLY will go in /usr where it rightfully belongs. > > I can tell you that we were having some of these same discussions 5+ years > ago, and I do remember that both me and Stefan were around in those > discussions...this has always been a topic that has caused much flame. > > Again, let's take a big breath and understand that software is moving into > /usr in the future, get used to it. > > Now, if other folks want to go ahead and create other distros of KDE and > locate them in /opt, that is ok with me, but I want this OpenSolaris KDE > project to be the one that delivers in /usr. Others can locate in /usr > also, but then it places more onus on the user to understand which > packages they install, where they get updates, etc... > > Enough of /opt/csw, /usr/foss/, /usr/sun, /usr/sfw, etc...what we need is > to have our community united, not segregated as it has been. I want all > software installed to /usr unless there is a problem, and those will be > the exception cases (i.e., minority).
"rightfully belongs" is a matter open to debate and interpretation. I'm sure administrators would have a few words about your decision to ignore them. I'm all for elimination of the million directories Solaris seems to have. I just want to see the proper process followed to do that and I don't see it happening here (in my view). -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
