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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: Size of opt partition for kde
From:       Sean Kendall Schneyer <Sean.Schneyer () kau ! se>
Date:       1999-02-18 17:59:11
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Anatol Quabach wrote:
> 
> Sean Kendall Schneyer wrote:
> 
> > Aaron W. wrote:
> > >
> > >    I am going to install Mandrake Linux 5.2 on my system and have a
> > > partitioning ?. I normally have a / and /usr partition for my system but
> > > kde wants a opt partition also. I am doing a new install and would like to
> > > know what a good size for the opt partition would be. Is kde the only thing
> > > that will get put in it? I have about 1200megs that I use for Linux (moving
> > > from RH5.0).
> > > Thanks
> >
> > My current KDE installation takes about 50 Megs... what I've done,
> > however, is created a softlink from /opt/kde to /usr/local/kde
> > so that I wouldn't need a seperate partition.
> 
> You can run configure with a flag like --prefix=/usr/local/kde as
> well.
> 
Actually, that is what I do now... I was assuming that he was
using an rpm ;o)  I leave the link though in case I forget the
--prefix so I don't end up with programs in all kinds of different
places :o)

// Sean

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