On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Relocateable packages are one, a statement from the KDE developers saying > > that > > "KDE belongs in /opt" or "KDE belongs in /usr" would be another. > > The KDE tradition was to package the lot in /opt/kde long before Red Hat > started to package it. As one of the package builders at the time I should > know ;-)
I know that, but when we had the chocie between "follow FSSTND/FHS" and "follow KDE tradition when KDE developers told us they didn't care", we opted for the former. By our reading, the current FHS/FSSTND doesn't give OS vendors the option of choosing /opt. There are also issues like existing customers tend to have small / partitions and no /opt, and woulnd't have been able to install KDE without symlink mucking as well. Making sure that folks can easily upgrade to LSB distributions from current ones should be a priorty, and it argues against /opt (unless you think ln -s /usr/opt /opt is a good idea, which I think is just a hack). Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Who is John Galt?" - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | | | | Linux Application Development -- http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad |
