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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE2/3 - KOffice problems
From:       "Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eloli () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2002-04-08 20:30:48
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But, the KOffice 1.1.1 for KDE2 _SHOULD_ have worked fine. There is a 
problem here, and the only suggestion I get is to try a *prerelease* of 
KOffice for KDE3. What if I want to run a stable version of KOffice? What if 
my documents are relying in a shortcoming or even a bug on KOffice 1.1.1?

Point is, "emerge koffice" did not work as advertised, just because KDE3 
thinks that its home dir is ~/.kde instead of ~/.kde3. We have a bug here 
gentlemen, we cann't afford to let it slip. KOffice is just one example of a 
KDE 2 app not working, other heavily-KPart applications will also have 
problems with this situation.

Even if I wanted KOffice 1.2pre, I am not willing to spend another 3-4 hours 
re-compiling all that. I did recompile KOffice twice this weekend just 
because I thought that there was something wrong with the first compilation. 
Is this what they say about Linux that it is free only if you have free 
time?
Sorry folks, but Gentoo is now 1.0, mistakes like these should not be 
slipped to end-users. More testing should be done before something gets up 
to the portage app tree. That is the whole point of Portage anyway... :D

>[/etc/profile.env] Of course if you want this order to be preserved you 
>need to
>get this change into portage tree. If you want to get this done, please
>experiment with the order (And you have to have a very clear case to
>convince developers)

How about this? 
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1802
Textar had the same problem and he fixed it pretty much the same way. By 
changing the order of the $PATH. At first glance it seems that the order of 
the $PATH does not matter, but the KDE2/3 situation shows that it does 
matter.

FYI, my Gentoo review for OSNews should be up next Monday.

Best Regards,
Eugenia

/me goes to edit her /etc/env.d/ dir and prays that she'll be able to fix 
the problem by hand. :o)

---
http://www.OSNews.com


>From: Bart Verwilst <verwilst@gentoo.org>
>To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
>Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE2/3 - KOffice problems (a bit more 
>explanation)
>Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 19:32:12 +0200
>Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
>
>On Monday 08 April 2002 15:42, David Faure wrote:
>
>|| Wrong, there's a koffice-1.1.1-kde3 for kde3.
>
>Wrong, there isn't a koffice 1.1.1-kde3 in portage.
>I've made a koffice 1.2 snapshot -ebuild, and that's in portage now.
>IMHO MUCH better than 1.1.1, the 1.2_pre in portage actually allows me to=
>  do
>my thesis in koffice, something which koffice 1.1.1 couldn't do by a long=
>-shot
>
>See ya!


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