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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: File locations (was Re: directory for additional services?)
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-05-23 17:10:51
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Christopher Wiegand wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 22 May 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> >/usr is the way to go for any distribution, but that's not our main goal
> >-
> >there is only one goal for me - making it easy for distributions to
> >change
> >the locations.
> >The only remaining question for KDE and this list is the hierarchy below
> >/usr/local - do we want a /usr/local/kde or do we want to share
> >/usr/local/bin
> >with other programs. The later is definitly what I prefer.
> 
> Although I'm not a core developer or anything, I think this is the way to go -
> make it so that normal people can, by default, install to /usr/local/kde or
> /opt/kde or whatever, but the distributions, some of which want to be FHS
> compliant, can say "kdebin = /usr/bin, kdelib = /usr/lib,
> kdeshare=/usr/share/kde, ....".
> 
That's the point. /me speaking as Debian developer ;)

Greetings, Stephan

-- 
Und sie nannten ihn, wie er selbst unterschrieb -
Den Trojanischen Pferdedieb

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