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On Wednesday 07 January 2009 10:17:56 Mark Haney wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > On Mittwoch 07 Januar 2009, Mark Haney wrote: |
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> >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> >>> with kdeprefix everything lands in /usr/kde/<version> which is cool and |
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> >>> usefull |
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> >>> |
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> >>> without kdeprefix everything ends in /usr which is stupid and hurts you |
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> >>> if you want to try different kde versions - or have several versions |
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> >>> installed so you can always go back easily when the newest one breaks. |
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> >>> But it is FHS compliant. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> At the beginning gentoo was 'screw stupid standards, do the sensible |
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> >>> thing' - but in the mean time the 'if there is a standard we have to |
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> >>> adhere to it no matter how idiotic' crowd has got way to much power. |
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I am apparently part of this crowd, but what you are saying seems to have a |
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large amount of your opinion with a sprinkling of fact. Almost all other |
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packages install into /usr and it is in fact a Gentoo policy that packages |
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install into /usr and follow FHS where practical. This has been a policy for |
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many years... |
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Upstream does not support installing into prefixes and this has in fact made |
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KDE difficult to support in the past, and has led to Gentoo specific bugs |
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along with issues linking to the right libs etc... |
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> >>> |
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> >>> So k9copy wants the flag set in a special way and depends on |
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> >>> kdepimlibs. Thank the devs for the mess. |
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> >> |
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> >> So, in other words, I HAVE to set this USE flag for kdepimlibs? Why |
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> >> would k9copy be dependent on that? |
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I don't use k9copy, but I am guessing it is a broken ebuild. If you report it |
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as a bug I am sure it will be taken care of. All KDE 4 ebuilds using the kde4 |
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eclasses are capable of working under both regimes. |
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> > |
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> > don't know - but is k9copy important for you? |
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> Not /that/ important. I use it occasionally. I'm just really curious |
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> know why that would be needed. |
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Basically an install of KDE has to be consistent. I.e. KDE 4.1 must be totally |
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-kdeprefix or totally +kdeprefix. If it is not then some things will be |
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installed in /usr and others in /usr/kde/4.1 and your KDE installation will |
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likely not work. |
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We are working to improve KDE. KDE 4 is very different to KDE 3, as with any |
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code there are likely bugs and if they are pointed out to us we will do what |
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we can to fix them. |
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