Re: [gentoo-dev] KDEDIR

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

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.

-- 
Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel