Proposal for KDE 4.0

[David Pashley]

On Aug 18, 2004 at 22:50, Malte S. Stretz praised the llamas by saying:
> On Wednesday 18 August 2004 23:29 CET George Staikos wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 August 2004 17:34, Luís Pedro Coelho wrote:
> > > >     /usr came into being long before KDE ever existed, and well,
> > > >     KDE is much larger than Unix was when /usr was created.  It
> > > >     really doesn't apply cleanly anymore.
> > >
> > > I'm sorry, I don't see what you mean.
> > >
> > > The problem that the hierarchy solved: separating things which can
> > > be mounted from the network in different platforms from things
> > > which need to be the same platform (binary platform, normally)
> > > from things which need to be accessible is still there since these
> > > types of environments are still widely used.
> >
> >   KDE is relatively a huge mess compared with traditional UNIX
> >   tools, which /usr was designed for.  It needs to be contained.
> 
> I suggest you to contact the FHS authors then [1,2].  At least Daniel
> Quinlan is a very reasonable guy.  But please don't brew your own
> thing -- the Gentoo /usr/kde way is already bad enough.
> 
Debian already manages to put KDE into a (fairly) FHS complaint layout.
Maybe you should check out that packaging.

-- 
David Pashley
david at davidpashley.com
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
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