[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Dale wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:04:06 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> Why would they?  /usr/kde/3.5/bin comes first in KDE 3 sessions and
>>>>>> last in KDE 4 sessions.  There's no problem at all.
>>>>> Not here
>>>>>
>>>>> % echo $PATH
>>>>> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i486-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/home/nelz/bin
>>>> Maybe because you *do* use kdeprefix.  Maybe it's better without it,
>>>> like here, where it works ;D
>>> I get the same order on this computer, which does not have KDE4.
>> That's because you don't have it.
>>
>> `echo $PATH` in a KDE3 session:
>>
>> /usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin
>>
>>
>> `echo $PATH` in a KDE4 session:
>>
>> /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin
>>
>>
>> So can we all agree now that the kdeprefix USE flag doesn't matter the
>> least with KDE3+KDE4 and that it's only there to support multiple
>> installations of KDE4?  (Like KDE 4.0.x + 4.1.x at the same time.)
>>
>>
>>
>
> root@smoker / # euse -i kdeprefix
> global use flags (searching: kdeprefix)
> ************************************************************
> [+ C  ] kdeprefix - Makes a KDE prefixed install into /usr/kde/${SLOT}
> if enabled or into /usr (FHS compatible) otherwise
>
> local use flags (searching: kdeprefix)
> ************************************************************
> no matching entries found
> root@smoker / #

Here's what it should say:

[+ C  ] kdeprefix - Makes a KDE 4 prefixed install into [...]

How I know?  I don't use kdeprefix and my KDE 3 is installed in 
/usr/kde/3.5 ;)

Also, if you care to look you'll see that kdeprefix is not used by any 
KDE3 ebuild.