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RE: KDE 2.2.2 beta1 released
- From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>
- To: "Cygwin-Xfree" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 08:36:59 +0200
- Subject: RE: KDE 2.2.2 beta1 released
> I think one of the major obstacles is to get the mainline cygwin
> maintainers to "approve" the /opt directory tree. There has been some
> discussion of this in the past, but it always ends in not wanting it
> because they say so. One might say why not
> /usr/X11R6/{qt2|qt3|kde2|kde3}? To that I say bah! The way it is
> supposed to be is /opt is for large or excessively significant addons to
> the system. This way one avoids cluttering up the X11R6 directory. Most
> distros use /opt for kde and Ralph currently uses it. Is there really a
> good reason why cygwin shouldn't use /opt for kde (possible gnome as
> well)? Feel free to disagree...
>
The only point to add is that for qt the default installation path is
/usr/lib/{qt2|qt3}.
Currently I'm using /usr/local/lib/qt... because it isn't a cygwin distributed
package like cygipc.
I vote also for using a new directory structure like ...
/opt/kde[123] for kde
/usr/lib/qt[123] for qt
Ralf