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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: New KDE 2.0 Red Hat RPMs available
From:       Mark Deneen <deneen () bucknell ! edu>
Date:       2000-03-08 20:23:09
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RedHat insists on putting kde in /usr because (as far as I know) it is correct
according to the Linux Standards Base.

/usr is not for "integral parts", but rather for parts which come with the
distribution.  If you compile stuff on your own later on, it should go in
/usr/local/

I kind of do things however I have disk space.  (so kde2 is in /opt.. ;-) )

On 08-Mar-00 Michael van der Westhuizen wrote:
> Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Pam R wrote:
>>
>> > BTW, where does the Red Hat RPM put kde2 ?
>>
>> For now, in /opt/kde2 so it can coexist with a KDE 1.x installation.
>>
>> The version that gets into the distribution will put it in /usr (at that
>> point, 1.x will be obsolete; maybe we'll provide some backwards
>> compatibility libraries for 1.x in a different place).
> 
> Why does RedHat insist on putting things like KDE into /usr, not /usr/local
> or /opt?
> This is just an observation, but it seems rather odd to me since KDE is not
> an integral part of a UNIX system (well... ;-).
> RH Linux seems to do this with just about everything in the distro, where
> doing things the OpenBSD style (only a basic system in the system places,
> and everything else in the local places) makes a lot more sense.
> 
> The RH way really messes with Qt development - you usually end up
> downloading the version of Qt they used to build KDE, forcing a removal of
> their Qt packages and recompiling in the Troll Tech advised places (yes,
> /usr//local/qt-xx symlinked to /usr/local/qt). That way you can at least
> jump between development and stable versions of the libraries.
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
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