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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: File locations (was Re: directory for additional services?)
From:       Sean Kendall Schneyer <Sean.Schneyer () kau ! se>
Date:       1999-05-21 21:54:11
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Andreas Pour wrote:
> 
> Sean Kendall Schneyer wrote:
> 
> > I'm sorry I came off the wrong way. The problem was that I didn't
> > have a position to begin with really :o)  What happened was that
> > I reacted to the fact that I thought you were saying that we
> > shouldn't follow the FHS... and then the only reason that you
> > seemed to give at the time was that we didn't fit into the
> > "normal" package space. I wasn't trying to be rude in anyway
> > and wasn't even saying that you were wrong, all I wanted was
> > a concrete reason why we should _not_ follow the FHS since it
> > was a standard. Nobody was able to give me a good reason so
> > I finally pulled up the standard for myself to see why it would
> > be so hard to follow for us... after reading it I can now see
> > that we ARE (almost) following the standard. The only thing
> > that we lack to conform to the standard is an $KDEDIR/man
> > directory (as specified in section 3.8).
> 
> Is that right?  As has been pointed out the /opt directory is reserved for
> "add-ons".  As Preston pointed out some while ago, a package is not an "add-ln" if
> it is part of a distribution.  Since KDE is now included in virtually every
> distribution, it really is wrong to think of it as an add-on -- instead, it is an
> integral component of every Linux system ( :-))) ).  So, I think RedHat has it
> right on this one, it should go under /usr, not /opt, if you want to comply with
> FHS.
> 
Actually, what Preston said was that if you get it from the
vendor that packaged your system (RedHat in this case) then it should
go under /usr. But if you got it from any other source it should
go under /opt or /usr/local. 

His original response can be found at:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde&m=92630941317386&w=2

// Sean
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