6871 – gnome2 vs kde3 install

Bug 6871 - gnome2 vs kde3 install

Summary: gnome2 vs kde3 install

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Spider (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-08-22 00:21 UTC by Brian Olsen
Modified:	2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Brian Olsen 2002-08-22 00:21:32 UTC

Suggestion:  I really like that all qt stuff goes in /usr/qt/3/ and all kde 
stuff goes in /usr/kde/3/.  Is there any reason whatsoever that there can't be 
a /usr/gnome/2/.  Please eliminate the bloat in /usr!!!!

Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-08-23 00:56:09 UTC

ugh, revisiting issues again...

Comment 2 Spider (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-08-27 12:14:41 UTC

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.1.html

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
4.1 Purpose
/usr is the second major section of the filesystem. /usr is shareable, read-only
data. That means that /usr should be shareable between various FHS-compliant
hosts and must not be written to. Any information that is host-specific or
varies with time is stored elsewhere.

Large software packages must not use a direct subdirectory under the /usr
hierarchy.