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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:14:52
Message-Id: 200812201214.39210.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3 by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Saturday 20 December 2008 11:53:05 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > > You can start by giving the relevant information, like what exactly
3 > > related to kde is in world?. Chances are you only have KDE there, and
4 > > emerge will probably want to nuke all but the latest SLOT. Common
5 > > problems with KDE:
6 > >
7 > > Put 'kdeprefix' in USE and rebuild
8 > > Put KDE:3.5 in world and recheck.
9 > >
10 > > This last one often needs to be redone recursively to get everything in
11 > > world that needs to be there. I've heard that autounmask helps with this
12 >
13 > kdeprefix has nothing to do with KDE3.  It's not needed.  It's only
14 > needed to have many KDE4 versions at the same time.
15
16 That's not true.
17 With USE=-kdeprefix, KDE4 is installed into /usr/
18 With USE=kdeprefix, KDE4 is installed into /usr/kde/4.x
19
20 The net result, when co-installed with kde-3.x, is that your various *PATH
21 variables will always have 3 before 4 or vice-versa. Which is a major pita
22 trying to get 3 and 4 to co-exist. Try it sometime, and watch KDE-4 try to
23 read KDE-3's config and data files. Or have KDE-4 launch konqueror-4 and
24 always get it right every time.
25
26 There's only one sane way to install KDE on gentoo - always use SLOTs, always
27 put every version in it's own directory in /usr/kde/, always add the relevant
28 directories to PATH | LDPATH | etc at start-up. The other option is to have
29 one, and only one, kde version at any time.
30
31 > I'll try the KDE:3.5 thingy.  I wonder though why the heck I have to do
32 > this.  KDE4 should have been put in its own tree.
33
34 Well that's your opinion, you are entitled to it. The KDE devs don't agree
35 though, and their three of a kind trumps your two pairs. If you are going to
36 assert that KDE-4 SHOULD be in it's own tree, then you are going to have to
37 present a sane argument for why, and for why the existing decision is
38 incorrect. Just saying something "should be" doesn't cut the mustard in this
39 case.
40
41 --
42 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>