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From: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@prosalg.no>
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On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Collins wrote:

> gnome and kde are in the /usr hierarchy instead of the /opt hierarchy
> "where god intended them to be." 

They lived in /opt before, but then that was suddenly very uncool and they
got moved to /usr. The binary packages were mostly allowed to say in
/opt.

It'd be nice to recruit an FHS zealot to handle all these pesky
path-details for us. 

Karl T