<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Collins Richey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crichey@gmail.com">crichey@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:39 PM, David L. Anselmi <<a href="mailto:anselmi@anselmi.us">anselmi@anselmi.us</a>> wrote:<br>
> Collins Richey wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:24 PM, David L. Anselmi<br>
>>><br>
>>> The FHS tries to standardize things in a way that makes sense.<br>
>><br>
>> their "makes sense" rules make it extremely difficult to house<br>
>> multiple versions of KDE/Gnome in the /usr structure<br>
><br>
> Can you elaborate on that? I'm not sure KDE/Gnome packages expect to<br>
> co-exist with other versions.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>What Shawn said. KDE/Gnome may not expect this, but lots of Gentoo<br>
users prefer to tinker with new upgrades in a sandbox without<br>
destroying their functional setup. By violating the FHS rules (this<br>
particular rule is lame IMO), they make it brain dead simple.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br><br>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.<br>
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