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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:24:52
Message-Id: 200811122124.43673.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ? by Alan McKinnon
1 On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:31:41 Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:
3 > > Hi everybody,
4 > >
5 > > I've just updated to 4.1.3 (slotted alongside with 3.5.9) and all of
6 > > sudden konqueror and akregator (didn't test much more, but I'm sure
7 > > something else was broke too) stopped launching hinting that there is a
8 > > CSS version mistmatch blah-blah-blah. Path to CSS suggested that 4.1.3
9 > > was using CSS from 3.5.9 which was bizzare since it was working before.
10 > >
11 > > so I checked my KDEDIRS environment variable and found out that kde-3.5
12 > > was listed there (no traces of kde-4.1) and to work around it I just
13 > > applied little script that rewrites KDEDIRS to something more usefull (?)
14 > > placing it under ~/.kde-4.1/env/kde4-kdedirs.sh:
15 > >
16 > > #!/bin/sh
17 > > export KDEDIRS=/usr:/usr/local
18 > >
19 > > and this fixed it. Now my question is: is it something about my setup or
20 > > it's happening to others too? Is there a "more proper" way to fix it?
21 >
22 > I had something similar on my first try:
23 >
24 > kde-4 went into /usr
25 > kde-3 went into /usr/kde/3.5
26 >
27 > And bizarre weird errors kept happening. I remerged all of kde-4 with
28 > USE="kdeprefix" to put it back into /usr/kde/4.1 and all the weirdness went
29 > away
30
31 in my opinion installing kde straight into /usr and changing the default
32 behaviour is the most stupid thing gentoo devs have done in the last couple of
33 years.

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ? "Dmitry S. Makovey" <dmitry@××××××××××.ca>