File Systems.
Erik Troan
ewt at redhat.com
Mon Mar 20 14:05:26 PST 2000
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Nicholas Petreley wrote:
> Neither do I, but in some cases it really helps to define boundaries for
> certain open source software. For example, it is a real mess to take a
> distro that puts KDE in /usr/bin and then upgrade it with a package that
> wants to put KDE in /opt/kde. With a little effort,you can get around such
> things, or you can wait for your distro to come out with the upgrade, but
> perhaps it doesn't have to be that way. I haven't given the solution to
> this problem much thought - maybe someone else here has.
Relocateable packages are one, a statement from the KDE developers saying that
"KDE belongs in /opt" or "KDE belongs in /usr" would be another.
Erik
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