[clue-tech] Proper files storage etiquette?

[Collins Richey]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:39 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:24 PM, David L. Anselmi
>>>
>>> The FHS tries to standardize things in a way that makes sense.
>>
>> their "makes sense" rules make it extremely difficult to house
>> multiple versions of KDE/Gnome in the /usr structure
>
> Can you elaborate on that?  I'm not sure KDE/Gnome packages expect to
> co-exist with other versions.
>

What Shawn said. KDE/Gnome may not expect this, but lots of Gentoo
users prefer to tinker with new upgrades in a sandbox without
destroying their functional setup. By violating the FHS rules (this
particular rule is lame IMO), they make it brain dead simple.

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Collins Richey
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