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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Redhat kde package config
From:       Andreas Pour <pour () mieterra ! com>
Date:       1999-08-31 14:54:16
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nbecker@fred.net wrote:

> I was really disappointed to find that RH6.0 built kde with
> --prefix=/usr.  Instead of organizing kde under /opt, everything is in
> /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc.

This is required to comply with the Linux File System Standard.  Anything
distributed by the initial distributor (in this case RedHat) is supposed
to go under /usr; add-on stuff goes to /opt and perhaps /usr/local.  See
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/, and esp.
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-3.8.html, where it says "/opt is
reserved for the installation of add-on application software packages",
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-4.html and
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-4.6.html.

> Incidentally, this causes kde to add -I/usr/include, which is
> dangerous on platforms using gcc where gcc is not the native compiler.

RH-6.0 (to which you refer) uses egcs-1.1.2 as the default compiler.  If
other distributions which do not have an adequate c++ compiler installed
wish to comply with the FHS, they will have to modify the auto-config
stuff, it would seem, to avoid this problem.

> In any case, has there been any discussion of this choice with the kde
> devel community?

Lots; mainly flames by people who do not understand the Linux FSS (as
evidenced by the fact that they argue it should fall under /opt to comply
with standards, whereas that exactly is what RedHat is doing be putting
it under /usr).  Read the mail archives.

Regards,

Andreas Pour

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