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

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

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

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