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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    kdedirs design
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-09-16 1:56:26
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   Does anyone have a suggestion for kdedirs design to avoid the following 
problem?

  - User installs KDE in /usr
  - User installs ksomeapp in /usr
  - User installs new version of ksomeapp from source in /usr/local and 
forgets about the one in /usr
  - User wonders why features are missing from the application and plugins 
don't work

   The problem is that KDE picks up the files in /usr first.  Can we reliably 
detect this situation and warn/error out if the app is installed twice?  Can 
we make the bin path correlate with the "primary" source for data (.rc files, 
etc)?  Another suggestion?

-- 
George Staikos
KDE Developer				http://www.kde.org/
Staikos Computing Services Inc.		http://www.staikos.net/

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