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 guess it would make sense, although dbus is already in /usr, so the
GNOME move shouldn't affect KDE at all.
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Rodrigo Moya