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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:02:44
Message-Id: gio6l3$65g$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3 by Dale
1 Dale wrote:
2 > Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> Neil Bothwick wrote:
4 >>> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:57:22 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
5 >>>
6 >>>> And how is putting KDE4 in /usr/kde going to help in this? What
7 >>>> difference does it make if the wrong path is chosen? Surely, it
8 >>>> doesn't matter a bit how that path looks like if it's wrong. If a KDE4
9 >>>> path would come before a KDE3 path in a KDE3 session, the last thing
10 >>>> you care about is whether that path is /usr/bin or /usr/kde/4.1/bin.
11 >>> Because /usr/bin will always be in your PATH, so even if you are
12 >>> running a
13 >>> KDE 3 session, KDE4 programs will be loaded.
14 >> Why would they? /usr/kde/3.5/bin comes first in KDE 3 sessions and
15 >> last in KDE 4 sessions. There's no problem at all.
16 >
17 > Then why doesn't it work then?
18
19 It works. It's just that this thread has gone off topic :P