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Subject:    Re: [FreeNX-kNX] freenx is dead !
From:       "Fabian Franz" <FabianFranz () gmx ! de>
Date:       2007-11-02 13:23:40
Message-ID: 20071102132340.228790 () gmx ! net
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> > I've been made aware of some even more important (and good) reasons for
> > not following the FHS when installing NX. More important reasons than
> > the ones I gave above. Read about them here:
> > 
> > http://www.nomachine.com/ar/view.php?ar_id=AR01C00130
> > 
> > I can understand these. They are even "heavy" enough to keep violating
> > the FHS even *after* the GPL source base of NX have moved to a newer
> > Xorg's FHS template layout (contrary to what I stated as "very likely
> > will be too much work").
> 
> Honestly I'm not really impressed. Seems more like a configuration
> management issue and more important to developers than end users.
> Distributions like Debian need to change the structure anyway, as
> violating
> the FHS is not allowed. It's more work for them.
> 
> The reasons NoMachine is giving could be true for almost every piece of
> software. Nothing special in there. Still a lot of software projects obey
> the FHS. It's just a matter of preference. Apparently, NoMachine finds
> keeping everything in one place more important than being
> standards-complaint.
> Durk

Exactly this argument has me brought from making my own packages. Just for your \
information. This is also the reason, why there has been and have been lots of \
hassles regarding different packaging for different distributions, which chose \
different locations.

/usr/NX is a bad choice. I agree. /opt/NX is better, because its third party \
software. All in one place and standards compliant.

You won't gain much from it though, because you could already use the tar version and \
have an old compatibility symlink in /usr/NX.

If you really think that the location of a package (and my own experience has showed \
that having all in one place like /opt/ makes things much easier) is more important \
than bug fixes, stability of the software, implementation of new features, easy to \
install packages, if you think that the mere location is much more important than all \
of that, speak up now!

Yes I am angry and yes I do know that that is not good, but I am absolutely fed up \
with this discussion.

!M is a commercial company. If you do not like their decisions, don't buy or use \
their software. Period.

FreeNX can be installed whereever you want, from your home directory to /opt/NX or \
/usr/NX or /usr/bin+/usr/lib+/etc/+/var and so on ...

cu

Fabian
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