Don't know...that's why I was asking about that particular example. :-)
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From: Michael B. Trausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: Kernel/Program Compatability
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> On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
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> > But what about when companies change the location where certain
> > programs are kept? i.e. RedHat "broke" KDE when they decided to move
> > it from /opt/kde to /usr/bin (?) Now, the default RPMs that can be
> > downloaded from kde.org will no longer work with RedHat 6.0, so you
> > can't upgrade to a newer version of KDE and are stuck with their
> > (IMNSHO) broken distribution. Granted this is a minor annoyance, but
> > it is an annoyance. Is this sort of thing common, or is this an
> > unusual happening? I am sure RedHat had a reason for moving the
> > location of KDE out of /opt, but I'll be darned if I know what it is!
> > :-)
> >
>
> I believe it was to comply with the Linux filesystem standard thing,
> wasn't it?
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