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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: renaming kde-config to kde4-config
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-07-03 20:24:30
Message-ID: 200607031624.34498.bastian () kde ! org
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On Monday 26 June 2006 17:22, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 26 June 2006 23:07, André Wöbbeking wrote:
> > AFAIK kde-config is for build systems, developers and maybe internals of
> > KDE.
>
> kde-config isn't used by kde at runtime. So it's only for the build system
> and for debugging a kde setup.

It's also used by third party apps that want to know where they need to 
install their stuff so that KDE knows about these apps. With the various 
freedesktop.org specs that is becoming less of an issue, but there are 
probably apps out there that detect KDE based on the presence of kde-config.

Cheers,
Waldo
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Linux Client Architect - Channel Platform Solutions Group - Intel Corporation

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