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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: renaming kde-config to kde4-config
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-07-03 23:49:13
Message-ID: 200607040149.13664.faure () kde ! org
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On Monday 03 July 2006 22:24, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 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.

Sure, and they'll need to update their stuff for kde4 in any case...

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).


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