On Thursday 17 January 2002 11:37 am, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > > It should - but as of my current base-files, it does not. /opt should be > > created as the FHS calls for it to be for third party software. KDE is > > not third party software in Debian. > > So it seems you were the smart person who thought "add-on" in FHS > necessarily meant "third party" although there is not the slightest > implication of such a thing in FHS itself. > You make an interesting point - the FHS very clearly states: "Distributions may install software in /opt..." It also calls the restrictions placed on distributions using /opt "minor."
I suppose the closest thing Debian has to add-on software would be packages with priority optional or extra. I agree that installing KDE into /opt sucks, and (technical implementation problems aside) while it does not violate the FHS, it violates my sense of aesthetics.
