Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

[Dale]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:04:06 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>
>>>>> Why would they?  /usr/kde/3.5/bin comes first in KDE 3 sessions and
>>>>> last in KDE 4 sessions.  There's no problem at all.
>>>> Not here
>>>>
>>>> % echo $PATH
>>>> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i486-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/home/nelz/bin
>>>
>>> Maybe because you *do* use kdeprefix.  Maybe it's better without it,
>>> like here, where it works ;D
>>
>> I get the same order on this computer, which does not have KDE4.
>
> That's because you don't have it.
>
> `echo $PATH` in a KDE3 session:
>
> /usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin
>
>
> `echo $PATH` in a KDE4 session:
>
> /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin
>
>
> So can we all agree now that the kdeprefix USE flag doesn't matter the
> least with KDE3+KDE4 and that it's only there to support multiple
> installations of KDE4?  (Like KDE 4.0.x + 4.1.x at the same time.)
>
>
>

root@smoker / # euse -i kdeprefix
global use flags (searching: kdeprefix)
************************************************************
[+ C  ] kdeprefix - Makes a KDE prefixed install into /usr/kde/${SLOT}
if enabled or into /usr (FHS compatible) otherwise

local use flags (searching: kdeprefix)
************************************************************
no matching entries found
root@smoker / #

Dale

:-)  :-)