[packagekit] FOSScamp discussion notes

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

Dňa Tuesday 27 May 2008 17:13:05 David Zeuthen ste napísal:
> On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 13:38 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 12:20 +0100, James Westby wrote:
> > >     Fedora: <a href="pk://DeviceKit">DeviceKit</a>
> > >     Debian/Ubuntu: <a href="pk://devicekit">DeviceKit</a>
> >
> > Why not say: Install the package that provides /usr/bin/devicekit-foo
>
> As a data point all distros don't use the same prefix for a package.

Very true.

> For 
> example, in Fedora, (most of) glib is installed into / rather than /usr.
> Also varies a lot with things from coreutils etc. etc. And IIRC SUSE
> used to install both GNOME and KDE into /opt.

This is not the case for GNOME and KDE4 anymore. However, KDE3 is still 
packaged in /opt for openSUSE 11.0.

Stano