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On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
>
> 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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