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[Curtis Rey <crey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 02 June 2007, Mohammad Bhuyan wrote:
> > "The KDE4 packages install into the /usr prefix hence KDE3 and KDE4 can
> > be installed at the same time."
>
> what does it mean by "/usr prefix"?
/usr stands for "unix system resources".  Previously to KDE4, KDE on SuSE was 
installed in the /opt directory, which stands for "optional" as a 
desktop/window manager in Linux (or nix back in the day) didn't need a gui 
and therefore it was (and by a few still is) considered "optional".  RedHat 
always defaulted to Gnome and it was installed in the /usr dir, and the same 
for the other desktops/windows managers - in RH they default to the /usr 
directory - Only SuSE used the /opt directory for the desktop root directory.

HTH, Curtis. 


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