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Re: [trinity-devel] Fwd: [opensuse-factory] Proposal for 12.2, move all binaries under /usr

From: Julius Schwartzenberg <julius.schwartzenberg@...>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:40:24 +0100
Timothy Pearson wrote:
>> If the system administrators do this change, how will we accommodate
>> Trinity to it?
>> Fedora is doing it; openSUSE is having an argument about if this is good
>> or not.
>> Gentoo had a discussion on this, I think.
>>
>> Should this be treated like a simple "let's move to /usr/local" or has
>> the renaming allowed us to install side by side with KDE4 without the
>> use of /opt?
> 
> We have not renamed everything--we would still conflict with KDE4 due to
> applications such as konsole and kwrite.
> 
> Not knowing too much about the standard directories on RPM systems, would
> it be possible to install to /usr/trinity ?

Reading the proposal (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove),
this would at least allow everything to work as intended.