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Subject: Re: Redhat kde package config
From: Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date: 1999-08-31 15:10:48
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Yep, Andreas is right, and it's one of the reasons I don't like the FSS. The
fact that I now have 1,564 binaries in /usr/bin is not good ;-)
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Andreas Pour wrote:
> 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
--
Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
mosfet@mandrakesoft.com
mosfet@kde.org
mosfet@jorsm.com
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