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Hi all, |
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As you know, KDE (and gnome etc.) now installs into /usr. This means there |
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are no more multiple versions of kde simultaneously installed. Sorry; I'll |
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miss it too. Someone who does want multiple versions should compile KDE on |
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his own into a /opt/kdeX.Y.Z location; do NOT use ebuilds for that, it won't |
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work. |
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Because of this, people who upgrade from a previous version of KDE to 2.2.1 |
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or greater (these are the versions that go into /usr) should do the following: |
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Unmerge your previous version of kde BEFORE merging the new one. You can move |
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/opt/kdeXYZ/share/config to /usr/share/config to preserve your system-wide |
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settings; usual kde config update warnings apply. |
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If you do otherwise, old KDEDIR settings can confuse the installation of the |
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new KDE, or its running. They shouldn't, but they might. |
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Technical: |
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Instead of potential multiple files in /etc/env.d, each specifying a |
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different kde dir in /opt, there will now be just one file /etc/env.d/kde (no |
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vrsion number) which will export KDEDIR=/usr for ever and ever. |
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Also, instead of hardcoding KDEDIR and QTDIR parameters in ebuilds, they |
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should now be taken from the environment. |
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Comments? |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team |
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Matan, Israel |
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