Re: [kde] setting an /opt precedent

2002-01-17 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 16:26, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > No, I would lean to interpreting package installation as explicit assent to > overwrite files contained in the package, and removal to remove files. That's not good enough, because you often don't know what files a package contains when you

Re: [kde] setting an /opt precedent

2002-01-17 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 15:00, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > > On Thursday 17 January 2002 21:44, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > > > We cannot currently ensure that a package installing to /opt cannot > > overwrite admin-installed software there. > > > > Thanks for t

Re: [kde] setting an /opt precedent

2002-01-17 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 14:26, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > On Thursday 17 January 2002 20:04, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > >Distributions may install software in /opt, but should not modify or > >delete software installed by the local system administrator without > > the assent of the loca

Re: [kde] setting an /opt precedent

2002-01-17 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 10:34, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > On Thursday 17 January 2002 17:22, Daniel Stone wrote: > > /opt is for "add-on" software. kde is not an "add-on". we package it as > > part of the distribution, it's not added on. > > That is a wrong reading of standard text. > > /opt -- A