Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE and kdeprefix

[Markos Chandras]

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