gentoo - wow!! - progress

[Collins]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 18:18:06 -0400 dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
> begin  Peter Ruskin's  quote:
> 
> | Good point about gentoo noticed so far:
> | It had KDE *exactly* where I have always wanted it:
> | 	/usr/kde/3/
> | 	/usr/qt/3/
> | ...and nothing of it in /usr/lib or /usr/share.  I imagine dep may
> | be pleased with that.
> 
> dep is most assuredly *not* pleased with that -- it's in flagrant 
> violation of the fhs! and gentoo's refusal to adopt the fhs is why
> it does not reside on any machines i have here. when gentoo adopts 
> slavish adherence to the fhs, i will adopt gentoo, but until it
> does, i won't. there is a reason for this, too: i'll not play with
> anyone who makes such an effort at being a sole-supplier system.
> linux ought to be *exactly* what the software part of the
> unitedlinux distribution proposes to be. (the problem with
> unitedlinux is its "screw you, users" policy.) the only reason any
> of the commercial distros is tolerable is the relative ease with
> which one can make it into standard linux, though suse has done a
> great deal to make this more difficult, chiefly by dicking around
> with /etc.-- 

Much material here for any number of flame wars.  I only have one
question.  How does a system that "slavishly adheres to the fhs"
handle instalation of new versions (or, God forbid, parallel versions)
of a monstrosity like kde?

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla