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Alex Alexander wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 23:07, Volker Armin |
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> Hemmann<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> please explain me why this option is bad? |
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>> I can give you examples why it is good: |
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>> -you can have multiple versions of kde installed (well, you could in the past, |
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>> until someone started to put crap into python's directories). |
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>> and |
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> Its not that simple |
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> KDE wasn't designed to work like this, kdeprefix is a Gentoo Thing |
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> that is not supported by upstream. |
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> Multiple issues can arise when using kdeprefix, things not working, |
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> misc kde4 apps linking to wrong kde4 versions, etc. |
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> If you know what you're doing (and how to fix stuff when it breaks ;) |
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> kdeprefix can be useful. But its primarily meant for developers who |
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> want to test newer kde versions. Most users should stick to -kdeprefix |
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> which is widely tested and its upgrade path is cleaner and thoroughly |
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> checked before each release. |
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Have the OpenOffice.org problems with -kdeprefix been fixed? When KDE4 |
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entered the tree, you couldn't build OpenOffice unless you enabled |
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kdeprefix because it chose the KDE4 libs over the KDE3 libs. |
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