tis 2001-10-23 klockan 01.56 skrev Nathaniel Grady:
> I think there are probably binary name colisions between various kde
> versions, not just libraries. For example kdm? I havn't actually
> verified this as i don't actually have >1 version of kde at the moment
> but didn't kde-1.x have kdm as well kde-2? 

Hmm.. a binary that are in both version should only be installed once.
Ie. you install the libraries for kde-2 and kde-3 but only kdm for
kde-3. 

> Despite what the LHS sais I've very partial to /opt/kdeX scheme. All 
> apps compiled against *that* kde version should go into that version
> so if you have apps of the same name copiled against different
> versions of kde you'll always get the right one.

When would you want to do this. If an app works fine in the latest
KDE-release then just compile it against that release.

> When I used to use LFS I did someting like this (like 2 summers ago)
> because I had apps that were never ported to kde2 that I still used...

This is solved by always keep kde-libs 2 and 3 installed.

> Maybe someone should write one of the LFS people and ask if they had 
> thoughts on how distros were to deal with this issue and / or make
> them aware that /opt/kdeX and /opt/gnomeX and the like maybe are a
> better idea than "put everying in /usr"? 

Just to clearify, this is just about KDE, the GNOME developers are
making sure that you can install GNOME 1 and GNOME 2 in the same prefix,
ie. They name the library-files different and they add the headers in a
version-dependent way. KDE should fix this too.

Also, we have determined already that /opt is for binary packages only.
Therefor putting KDE there is not an option.
 
Now I'm off to bed.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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