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On Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> > On Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> > > > Barring the somewhat humorous ending to this warning from my latest |
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> > > > updates to KDE, I'm a little concerned by the import of the message. |
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> > > > Can someone enlighten me? |
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> > > > |
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> > > > |
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> > > > * WARNING! You have kdeprefix useflag enabled. |
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> > > > * This setting is strongly discouraged and might lead to potential |
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> > > > troubles * with KDE update strategies. |
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> > > > * You are using this setup at your own risk and kde team does not |
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> > > > * take responsibilities for dead kittens. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > |
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> > > > What update strategies are being considered that would break by using |
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> > > > this? And was this a KDE message directly? Or is this a warning |
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> > > > from the Gentoo KDE devs? |
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> > > |
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> > > This is a warning message from Gentoo KDE devs . kdeprefix is a gentoo |
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> > > thingie and it not supported by official KDE upstream. Thus I might not |
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> > > work that well. It is only advised to use it if you want to have |
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> > > kde:4.2 and :live together. I would recommend to disable it globally |
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> > > and run emerge -uDN world |
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> > |
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> > and I wouldn't touch it and ignore the message. |
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> > |
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> > kde has a long history of not installing into /usr directly - and that |
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> > was always a good thing. |
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> The message exists there for a reason. It is up to the user whether he |
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> ignores it or not. As a member of Gentoo KDE team I would advice him to |
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> drop kdeprefix |
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why? to make it harder to clean up after a mess? so that future kde versions |
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trip over each other? |
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