Re: [gentoo-dev] KDEDIR

[Charles Kerr <charles@kerrskorner.org>]

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

Although  I certainly did not want  to disrupt or cause any decisions to be 
revisited.  I had just finished removing the emerge kde and was setting up a 
kde envrionment outside emerge. So hope it wasn't taken as whining, just 
asking!   Anyway, cant wait to try out the "new" emerge kde when ready!.


Charles


On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:25 pm, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 January 2002 22:11, you wrote:
> > The reason for not doing this is that putting kde in /usr (and thus only
> > having 1 kde) is an intentional decision, not a consequence of anything
> > else. And the decision has been made in the highest levels (hallski,
> > drobbins) and not just by me, so it can't be reversed without their
> > approval.
>
> Some better news:
>
> Hallski, drobbins and me just had a short discussion on this in #gentoo and
> agreed that we should support this.
>
> This will probably be changed considerably, but here's the orig.
> suggestion: 2 vars to set in e.g. make.conf for kde2, kde3 respectively.
> Every kde apps installs into the location set by its var (via eclasses).
> Change the vars and you get a new location.
>
> We'll have to come up with a scheme to add all the right locations to PATH,
> LDPATH and it likely won't be fully automated - you'll want to decide on
> the order of your paths yourself anyway, unless you have only 1 or 2
> locations.
>
> Again, this will change, but thei mportant news is that some support will
> be there :-) It'll may well take a week or so though, so don't hold your
> breath.