[ Thanks to Kevin
Reichard for this link. ]
“Here we are, a few weeks away from the release of a new
version of KDE, and once again there’s a virtual Trevi Fountain of
urination tournaments over where in the Linux file system KDE
belongs.“
“Unlike a lot of the just-for-the-sake-of-arguing disputes that
take place in the Linux world, this one actually matters to a lot
of people for real, demonstrable reasons. It is also one place
where a single distribution has dictated a standard–out of sheer,
brute force, not because that standard is the best answer.”
“For the first year or so of its existence, KDE was typically
placed in /opt/kde (though some users put it in /usr/local/kde).
This made sense for a number of reasons, chief among them that if
one wanted to build an incremental upgrade from source, backing up
the old, working version was a simple thing, as was restoring it if
the compilation didn’t go as planned, but waited until, say,
kdebase before blowing up. Everyone was happy with the
arrangement.”