> I would like to draw attention to this, as I am sure TDE would be more > widely accepted if more general standards were followed (however, I > know the team is already working in this area) The reason to avoid /usr/ is to prevent conflicts with KDE4. according the the fhs we are doing it correctly by using /opt/. While a lot of stuff is renamed, this solution is much more elegant than adding -trinity to all binaries or renaming every lib. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES Calvin