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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Saturday 20 December 2008 11:53:05 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> You can start by giving the relevant information, like what exactly |
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>>> related to kde is in world?. Chances are you only have KDE there, and |
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>>> emerge will probably want to nuke all but the latest SLOT. Common |
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>>> problems with KDE: |
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>>> Put 'kdeprefix' in USE and rebuild |
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>>> Put KDE:3.5 in world and recheck. |
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>>> This last one often needs to be redone recursively to get everything in |
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>>> world that needs to be there. I've heard that autounmask helps with this |
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>> kdeprefix has nothing to do with KDE3. It's not needed. It's only |
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>> needed to have many KDE4 versions at the same time. |
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> That's not true. |
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Yes it is. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml#doc_chap3 |
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"This restriction does not apply to KDE 3.5 [...]. You can have a |
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non-kdeprefix version of KDE 4.1, KDE 3.5 and a live version of KDE |
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installed on the same system." |
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kdeprefix is *only* for multiple KDE 4 installations. |
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> With USE=-kdeprefix, KDE4 is installed into /usr/ |
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> With USE=kdeprefix, KDE4 is installed into /usr/kde/4.x |
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Yes, and KDE3 is *always* installed in /usr/kde/3.5 no matter what. |
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Therefore, kdeprefix is totally irrelevant here. |
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> The net result, when co-installed with kde-3.x, is that your various *PATH |
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> variables will always have 3 before 4 or vice-versa. Which is a major pita |
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> trying to get 3 and 4 to co-exist. Try it sometime, and watch KDE-4 try to |
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> read KDE-3's config and data files. Or have KDE-4 launch konqueror-4 and |
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> always get it right every time. |
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Has nothing to do with kdeprefix :P |
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> There's only one sane way to install KDE on gentoo - always use SLOTs, always |
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> put every version in it's own directory in /usr/kde/, always add the relevant |
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> directories to PATH | LDPATH | etc at start-up. The other option is to have |
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> one, and only one, kde version at any time. |
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You're misinformed, I think. For the reasons above :) |
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>> I'll try the KDE:3.5 thingy. I wonder though why the heck I have to do |
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>> this. KDE4 should have been put in its own tree. |
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> Well that's your opinion, you are entitled to it. The KDE devs don't agree |
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> though, and their three of a kind trumps your two pairs. If you are going to |
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> assert that KDE-4 SHOULD be in it's own tree, then you are going to have to |
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> present a sane argument for why, and for why the existing decision is |
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> incorrect. Just saying something "should be" doesn't cut the mustard in this |
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> case. |
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The reason is that KDE4 is a new product and has nothing to do with KDE3 |
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other than the name. And another reason is the problem I'm describing |
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in this very thread which should have not been a problem if KDE4 had its |
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own tree. Now I'm required to have non-straightforward voodoo performed |
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to get things right just because the devs made a wrong decision. |
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