IBM's ThinkPad-Linux support project being dropped

[Matthew Carpenter]

Perhaps I need a little educating.  What is the reason that putting KDE in
/opt makes life any easier?  There's /usr, /usr/local, and /opt, and it
seems like everyone picks one and sticks with it, but I don't immediately
see the reason that /opt is any better than /usr.  Perhaps I missed it
because I didn't read the FHS or LSB very well.  Is /opt the place for
precompiled software and /usr the place for roll-yer-own?  That sounds a
lot like the difference between /usr and /usr/local.  Could you explain
further?

Thanks,
Matt


On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:16:29 -0400
"dep" <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:

> but, you see, there *is* a compelling technical reason. putting it in 
> /usr makes life very difficult for the non-weenies who compile their 
> own stuff rather than lap up whatever the distribution packages