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Dale wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:57:22 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> And how is putting KDE4 in /usr/kde going to help in this? What |
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>>> difference does it make if the wrong path is chosen? Surely, it |
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>>> doesn't matter a bit how that path looks like if it's wrong. If a KDE4 |
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>>> path would come before a KDE3 path in a KDE3 session, the last thing |
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>>> you care about is whether that path is /usr/bin or /usr/kde/4.1/bin. |
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>> Because /usr/bin will always be in your PATH, so even if you are running a |
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>> KDE 3 session, KDE4 programs will be loaded. By keeping the separate,not |
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>> only from one another but also from other programs, you can ensure that |
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>> your PATH includes only KDE3 or KDE4 programs. |
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> So to clarify a bit more, for me at least. If you login to KDE 3.5 then |
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> /usr/kde/3.5/bin is in your path but not /usr/kde/kde/4.*. The same |
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> could be said in the reverse I assume? |
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> If you don't use the flag and login to KDE 3.5 then all the KDE 4.* |
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> stuff is in your path and anytime you try to open a KDE 3.5 app, it sees |
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> the KDE 4.* apps first? Correct? If it is, I can only imagine how |
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> confused a computer would be. |
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> I wonder if a person could change the order that those paths are |
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> searched? Could you put in a config file somewhere to search one first |
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> then the others or would that just not work well in the reverse situation? |
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That's already the case. /usr/bin comes first in KDE4 sessions, while |
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/usr/kde/3.5/bin is first in KDE 3 sessions. Same goes for LDPATH. |
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