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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kdedirs design
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-09-16 15:18:39
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On Tuesday 16 September 2003 05:28, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 September 2003 03:56, George Staikos wrote:
> >    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?
>
> Depends on the app, but as soon as you need ksycoca or anything else that
> is shared between KDE you're screwed. We have the same issue with Kopete,
> but there's no way to avoid it, besides installing both in their own dir,
> setting KDEDIRS before running and starting kbuildsycoca first.

   Well I was hoping someone would have a better suggestion. :-)  Most 
problems can be solved...

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

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