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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 from |
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> > > 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 kde:4.2 |
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> > and :live together. I would recommend to disable it globally and run |
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> > 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 was |
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> always a good thing. |
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The message exists there for a reason. It is up to the user whether he ignores |
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it or not. As a member of Gentoo KDE team I would advice him to drop kdeprefix |
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-- |
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Markos Chandras (hwoarang) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Qt/Sunrise/Sound] |
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Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org |
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