Re: [gentoo-dev] KDEDIR

[Charles Kerr <charles@kerrskorner.org>]

On Wednesday 02 January 2002 09:00 am, you wrote:

> Well, this suggestion was raised before but we decded against it. For one
> thing, you'd still have to juggle paths the way you do now. In any case it
> was decided that providing support for one version of any app (and multiple
> kdes) is enough.

Not sure I understand the juggling of paths, a symlink change of kde and qt 
would suffice. 



> Are they being modified now? Not as far as I know, just being set in
> /etc/env.d. The only "dynamic" modification going on is in startkde (PATH)
> and I may get rid of that as well.

No, they are not. Was speculating past if multiple KDE's where supported.



> Well, one thing I can tell you right now is this: the generic Gentoo KDE
> setup does not, and will not, include support for mutiple KDEs. If you want
> to run multiple KDEs yourself, expect the Portage-installed KDE to make
> trouble. For one thing, since it lives in /usr, it has an unpleasant
> tendency to get into the beginning of your PATH, before any other KDE.

Yea, I understood the /usr issue of being first in the PATH *smile*. that is 
why the question!


>
> I will try to provide a more satisfcatory solution, but the Gentoo KDE will
> still come first in my priorities. So if you want to have multiple KDEs on
> a permanent basis (what for? testing?), you might consider not installing a
> KDE from portage at all. That way all you KDEs would be on an equal
> footing, but you'd lose all the nice things we put into the KDE ebuilds.

Main reason I want multiple,is for KDE development.  If you have a KDE app, 
you need to start migrating it to the next KDE.  However,  one must still 
maintain it on the "old" kde for some time.  Would have thought that would 
have been a fairly common situation. Perhaps it isn't.  Understand  that 
Gentoo KDE would be your priority.  And if it is set, wasnt' my intent to 
change just for me (again, I would have thought any who do KDE app 
development would need something like that) 
Yea, I was figuring it would probably come down to removing the Gentoo KDE 
and just doing it manually.  Can you give an example of what "nice thing" is 
put into the KDE ebuilds (always want to know what I am losing *smile*)?

Anyway, appreciate the answer!