Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (60 mails)

[Richard Bos <ml@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Op woensdag 3 januari 2007 17:40, schreef Andreas Hanke:
> > is it possible to explain, why this is done?  What is the advantage of
> > /usr or the disadvantage of /opt?
>
> The /opt/gnome <-> /usr separation simply doesn't work. It worked
> reasonably in the past when GNOME was sort of self-contained, but today
> GNOME packages install a lot of files (mono libraries, python modules,
> dbus services, message catalogs...) that *must* live in /usr.

As kde is dependend on e.g. dbus as well, does that mean that in the future 
kde (kde4) will move to /usr as well?

Op woensdag 3 januari 2007 18:26, schreef Stanislav Brabec:
> Additionally installation of distribution packages to /opt:
> - Breaks LSB rules.
Does the LSB forbid to install packages outside /usr.  I thought that the LSB 
allows packages to be installed /opt, under certain conditions.

> - Forces third parties to create many distribution specific RPM
>   packages.
The same is valid in think for kde (see above).  Does this mean that kde(4) 
will be located in /usr in the future as well?

-- 
Richard Bos
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