questions about distributions

[rlk at alum.mit.edu (Robert L Krawitz)]

   From: Brad Noyes <maitre at ccs.neu.edu>
   Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 13:00:43 -0500

   One problem that i see with Red Hat is that it installs KDE in
   /usr, when the usual install of KDE goes into /opt, Red Hat does
   the same type of thing when it comes to QT, i don't know where it
   installs QT, but it doesn't put it in /usr/local/qt, where i would
   expect to find it.

Red Hat should not install QT in /usr/local (probably in /usr/lib or
the like).  /usr/local is intended to be reserved for locally built
packages, so actually Red Hat (or any distribution) really shouldn't
install anything into /usr/local at all.

As for KDT: SuSE does install KDE and Gnome into /opt; Solaris also
uses /opt for non-core packages.  I think /usr is a reasonable place
for it, though.  The question with /opt is, where should it actually
live in the filesystem?  The root filesystem may not be big enough,
and /usr is usually sized to hold plenty of software.

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