What is going on ?

[Mathias Puetz]

On Wed, 08 Dec 1999, you wrote:
>On Wed, 08 Dec 1999, Roland Knall wrote:
>
>|The only problem with RH6.1 is, it uses the new QT libs, which is not totally
>|nonsense, since they are the newer ones. But for "normal" KDE users the newer
>|ones are the wrong ones.
>
>there's a *whole lot* wrong with rh-6.1, as many, many megs of errata, the fact 
>that kde is put in /usr, and the inclusion of qt-1.44 and a qt-2 that won't 
>compile kde2 demonstrate.
>
There's nothing wrong with RedHat 6.1 (at least not more than usual).
Just install the qt-1.44-devel packages and set the QTDIR variable
and off you go. In  my opinion 6.1 is one of the most solid RedHats
that ever existed. Though it remains a mystery to me why they installed
QT-2.0 as default QT version.
But what's wrong with installing KDE in /usr or in /bluemoon or whatever ?
KDE happily lives wherever you put it: it's supposed to work independently
from the absolute install path. For RedHat it makes absolute sense
to install into the /usr tree because it's consistent with the rest of their
distribution.

Cheers,
Mathias

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