Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (60 mails)

[JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 21:30 +0100, Richard Bos wrote:
> 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?

I believe that is the plan, the KDE team didn't want to move until KDE 4
though.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Novell, Inc.

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