Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:31:41 Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I've just updated to 4.1.3 (slotted alongside with 3.5.9) and all of
> > sudden konqueror and akregator (didn't test much more, but I'm sure
> > something else was broke too) stopped launching hinting that there is a
> > CSS version mistmatch blah-blah-blah. Path to CSS suggested that 4.1.3
> > was using CSS from 3.5.9 which was bizzare since it was working before.
> >
> > so I checked my KDEDIRS environment variable and found out that kde-3.5
> > was listed there (no traces of kde-4.1) and to work around it I just
> > applied little script that rewrites KDEDIRS to something more usefull (?)
> > placing it under ~/.kde-4.1/env/kde4-kdedirs.sh:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > export KDEDIRS=/usr:/usr/local
> >
> > and this fixed it. Now my question is: is it something about my setup or
> > it's happening to others too? Is there a "more proper" way to fix it?
>
> I had something similar on my first try:
>
> kde-4 went into /usr
> kde-3 went into /usr/kde/3.5
>
> And bizarre weird errors kept happening. I remerged all of kde-4 with
> USE="kdeprefix" to put it back into /usr/kde/4.1 and all the weirdness went
> away

in my opinion installing kde straight into /usr and changing the default 
behaviour is the most stupid thing gentoo devs have done in the last couple of 
years.