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Month: June 2012

Re: [trinity-devel] TDE naming inconsistencies and kdm-trinity

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:18:17 -0500
>> 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
>

Regarding the kdm/tdm problem, R14.0 will install the TDE Display Manager
as /opt/trinity/bin/tdm.  Our nightly builds already do this.

Tim