Bug 6871

Summary:	gnome2 vs kde3 install
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Brian Olsen <bnolsen>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Spider (RETIRED) <spider>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.