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To repeat and extend what I said: |
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On Sunday 23 December 2001 16:13, you wrote: |
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> > > 1. If the FHS say only binary stuff goes in /opt, where would I put |
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> > > several KDEs-in-testing? /usr/kde-$ver? |
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> > Whatever makes sense; just don't use /opt. |
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On that subject, I'd like to raise once more the issue of KDE placing. Now |
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is the last time we can easily change it, before doing kde3 ebuilds. I |
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still think there should be support for multiple KDEs, which would live in |
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e.g. /usr/kde-$ver each. Juggling paths would be a lot easier. |
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The way things work right now - one big kde in /usr, many kdelibs in |
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/usr/lib/kdelibs-$ver - there are the following problems, which will |
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disappear if we place all KDEs (incl. kdelibs) in /usr/kde-$ver and put each |
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app in the dir of the kdelibs to which it links: |
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- Many users will want multiple KDEs, with or without ebuilds that support |
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it. It'd be better for us to do it for them, so that things are unified. |
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- Some apps don't like living separately from their kdelibs. In particular, |
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noatun doesn't work at all (and apparently is unfixable save by patching the |
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code), mosfet's liquid widgets require a makefile patch (applied), and kdm |
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can't find the user icons (one possible solution is to manually move the |
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icons in src_install). Other problems will likely arise. |
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- With one kde in /usr, it can be (from expirience) very complicated to |
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startup a kde that lives elsewhere, since /usr always commes first in the |
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paths. |
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- eclasses (and kdelibs & kdebase ebuilds) are becoming more and more complex |
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and tangled to support all this. |
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I don't know how FHS-compatible that is (i.e. /usr/kde-$ver), beyond not |
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putting kde in /opt. But I'd really like it to be that way - it would |
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certainly make everybody's life easier. |
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Now, I unfortunately missed the orig. kde->/usr thread back when it was |
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discussed. Apparently it was mostly on IRC and not on the mailing lists so |
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the only reason for having kde in /usr I really know is the FHS. There may be |
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other & better reasons. |
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Even if we decide to hav only 1 kde, it will still be a lot better no to ahve |
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in /kde. If we have /usr/kde-$ver dirs, each of which will contain a |
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kdelibs-$ver and all apps linked against it, and kde base will live in one of |
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those, it'll be a lot better than it is now. Again, because the kde that |
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lives in /usr has execution priority over any others. |
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If we make kde live in /usr, -- |
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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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