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On Wednesday 02 January 2002 09:00 am, you wrote: |
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> Well, this suggestion was raised before but we decded against it. For one |
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> thing, you'd still have to juggle paths the way you do now. In any case it |
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> was decided that providing support for one version of any app (and multiple |
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> kdes) is enough. |
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Not sure I understand the juggling of paths, a symlink change of kde and qt |
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would suffice. |
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> Are they being modified now? Not as far as I know, just being set in |
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> /etc/env.d. The only "dynamic" modification going on is in startkde (PATH) |
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> and I may get rid of that as well. |
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No, they are not. Was speculating past if multiple KDE's where supported. |
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> Well, one thing I can tell you right now is this: the generic Gentoo KDE |
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> setup does not, and will not, include support for mutiple KDEs. If you want |
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> to run multiple KDEs yourself, expect the Portage-installed KDE to make |
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> trouble. For one thing, since it lives in /usr, it has an unpleasant |
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> tendency to get into the beginning of your PATH, before any other KDE. |
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Yea, I understood the /usr issue of being first in the PATH *smile*. that is |
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why the question! |
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> I will try to provide a more satisfcatory solution, but the Gentoo KDE will |
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> still come first in my priorities. So if you want to have multiple KDEs on |
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> a permanent basis (what for? testing?), you might consider not installing a |
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> KDE from portage at all. That way all you KDEs would be on an equal |
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> footing, but you'd lose all the nice things we put into the KDE ebuilds. |
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Main reason I want multiple,is for KDE development. If you have a KDE app, |
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you need to start migrating it to the next KDE. However, one must still |
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maintain it on the "old" kde for some time. Would have thought that would |
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have been a fairly common situation. Perhaps it isn't. Understand that |
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Gentoo KDE would be your priority. And if it is set, wasnt' my intent to |
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change just for me (again, I would have thought any who do KDE app |
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development would need something like that) |
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Yea, I was figuring it would probably come down to removing the Gentoo KDE |
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and just doing it manually. Can you give an example of what "nice thing" is |
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put into the KDE ebuilds (always want to know what I am losing *smile*)? |
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Anyway, appreciate the answer! |
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