[clue-tech] Proper files storage etiquette?

[Angelo Bertolli]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>


What rule exactly does this violate?  Or maybe, how does it violate a rule?
As long as you have /usr there, the rule is satisfied, no?  I would even go
as far as to say a symlink from /usr to something would count.
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