Re: RedHat7.1/eDesktop2.4 differences

[dep]

On Sunday 22 July 2001 12:52 am, Ken Moffat wrote:

| Well, this gives me pause. What do they use instead of /usr/local
| and /opt? In reading the newsgroups, it seems most users are fairly
| happy with it, but maybe they don't know any better.

they dump lots of stuff -- kde, for instance -- into /usr, which 
makes backing it up if you want to do an upgrade very problematical. 
the solution is to get the source, then dump out of kde and rpm -e 
all the kde stuff, then build it with --prefix=/opt/kde. very much a 
pita.

suse puts kde into /opt, but because it tries to have 
interoperability between kde-1.x and kde2, the structure is a little 
weird; nothing that can't be overcome fairly easily, and their 
motives are pure, but it's a little startling at first.
-- 
dep
 
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