On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 16:19, Jarno Elonen wrote: > * Many people feel that KDE (and Gnome) is too large > a whole to be stuffed in /usr/bin, /usr/share etc > and would deserve a separate directory like X > > * Some proposed using /opt/kde3. Arguments:
I strongly, strongly object to this. The whole point of the Debian Way is integration, and consistency. There's nothing special about KDE or GNOME in this regard. I should be able to install a package, and it should Just Work. I shouldn't have to frob my $PATH to run binaries. I shouldn't have to do stuff like give special arguments to "configure" scripts so they find the development headers for a package. #include <bar.h>, or #include <package/subsystem.h> should Just Work. Program authors should take care to ensure that if it's important, multiple versions can be installed seamlessly side-by-side, like gcc and gcc-3.0. If it's not possible, then we (Debian) will have to pick a version to distribute in each release.
