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Hi, |
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I am CCing the KDE alias this time, but in future think that these discussions |
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should take place on a public mailing list that is archived. I also hope that |
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this will document decisions that are made and give an easily accessible |
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archive. Hopefully this will avoid duplication of work, debating and |
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redebating the same things and allow both users and developers to take an |
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active role in the decision making process. |
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That said, some things are hard to resolve. This seems to be one of those |
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things. Originally when we discussed my idea for being able to install KDE |
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into /usr we discussed a developers need to install both the released version |
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and a live KDE build. We decided that the :live slot would be a special case |
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that would always be installed into a KDE prefix (/usr/kde/live). |
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This makes it easy for developers to install a stable released KDE to /usr and |
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keep a live KDE in a KDE prefix for development purposes. Today I noticed this |
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has not been implemented and thought I would take care of it. It seems to work |
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quite nicely locally, the changes to kde4-base.eclass remove the kdeprefix USE |
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flag from live ebuilds, always use /usr/kde/live as a prefix and make minimal |
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changes to kdelibs/kdepimlibs to stop using the kdeprefix USE flag. |
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It seems that some people are now objecting to this change and so I have not |
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committed it. If necessary I can maintain another overlay with these minor |
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changes, syncing with the kde-crazy live ebuilds as and when required. Ideally |
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this would not be necessary, but from what I can tell on IRC it seems there is |
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at least a 50:50 split. |
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Locally, my changes work great. I can log into a live session, do some |
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testing, and even if I call a KDE 4.2 beta app it writes stuff to .kde4 |
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whereas live is using .kdelive... |
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If anyone can think of a better resolution let me know. Otherwise it looks |
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like I really need this for myself, and at least a few other users would like |
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it too. As such I can add another overlay with these changes present. Proposed |
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name - kde-cryos as it seems that these are minor changes I feel are |
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necessary. |
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Thanks, |
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Marcus |
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