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On Thursday 12 November 2009 14:52:14 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> >> then unmerge all of kde-3.5, verify with depclean, then delete the |
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> >> overlay |
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> > I thought they changed all that? I have /usr/kde/3.5 but nothing for KDE |
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> > 4. Equery shows this: |
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> > root@smoker ~ # equery files kde-base/kdelibs-4.3.3 |
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> Alan spoke about the configs and app data in ~. kdelibs naturally installs |
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> into the system, not home. And if you don't enable the prefix useflag in |
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> the older version (I believe they removed it a while ago anyway), then it |
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> installs HFS compliantly into /usr instead of /usr/kde/$version. |
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Correct. |
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KDE-3.5 installs into /usr/kde3.5/ |
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KDE-4 installs into /usr/ |
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with kdeprefix, KDE-4 *used* to install into /usr/kde4.1, /usr/kde4.2, etc but |
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this was a bad idea when it started and never got any better so it was canned. |
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Full gory details in the KDE4 docs on gentoo.org. |
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Short version: Do not use kdeprefix. Ever. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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