2011/11/25 Robert Xu <robxu9@gmail.com>

If the system administrators do this change, how will we accommodate
Trinity to it?
Fedora is doing it; openSUSE is having an argument about if this is good or not.
Gentoo had a discussion on this, I think.

Should this be treated like a simple "let's move to /usr/local" or has
the renaming allowed us to install side by side with KDE4 without the
use of /opt?

I have read this proposal some time ago, and even if don't entirely agree with it because I don't consider it painless as everybody seems to believe, I think it can also lead to interesting possibilities.

It seems that /opt is not even considered in the plan. To me /opt doesn't stink :) I think it's a reasonable short term solution, as long as $PATH keeps working the traditional way (as it should for a long time).

Of course a complete rename of every application, binary, lib, man and so on, to avoid any name collision with KDE, even installing in the same paths, is the true long term solution. But I really don't know if this is already the case. Timothy?