Where'd they go ?

[Paul Lussier]

Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at iname.com> writes:

> On Nov 27 at 10:46pm, Paul Lussier wrote:
>>> Command line programs are normally placed in /usr/bin. KDE apps are
>>> usually in /opt/kde3/bin.
>>
>> Is this standard for KDE, or is this particular to a certain distribution?
>
>    Putting distro stuff in /opt/ is a SuSE thing.  I haven't seen
>    another distro do that.

I know originally, /opt was a SysV thing, and Sun tried to push that
with Solaris early on.  I didn't like it then, and I don't like it now
:)  Give me a good package manager, and access to /usr/local :)

>    I know Red Hat/Fedora/whoever likes to put everything in /usr/bin/
>    these days, regardless of what environment it runs under.

Well, it's good to know they do *something* right ;)
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Seeya,
Paul (who is dawning his asbestos underwear for the ensuing distro flame war ;)