From kde-core-devel  Wed Feb 08 12:22:07 2006
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:22:07 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Support for out of prefix installation
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Martijn Klingens wrote:
>> Maybe we can have a 3rd option: install into ${prefix} and symlink
>> into /usr. Some kind of "broken symlink removal" tool should be run
>> every now and then to clean up.
>
>Interesting idea. Downside is that it's not portable to e.g. Windows, so
> it poses problems for the build system to work around this somehow on
> such systems. If you know a way to solve it I like the idea in general.
> :)

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