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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Support for out of prefix installation
From: Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date: 2006-02-08 12:38:11
Message-ID: 200602081338.11357.l.lunak () suse ! cz
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On Wednesday 08 February 2006 13:15, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 February 2006 13:04, Thiago Macieira 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.
Hmm, funny, I've just suggested exactly the same on the xdg list.
> 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. :)
I don't think it's portable to Windows anyway. Their handling of mimetypes
etc. is presumably different from ours.
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Lubos Lunak
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