On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, weis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> lets try again:
> 
> At university our students can not install apps since they are not
> root. So they can install only in their home directories.
> People reported to me that they can not install the RPM
> packages in their home dirs. Is there any way?

Relocate the package to $HOME/.kde

> And further more: Can we set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to contain
> $HOME/.kde/libs ? Distributors should in addition
> add $HOME/.kde/bin to $PATH, or we do that in startkde.

Good idea.
 
> And (related to ksycoca) if two services of the same name and the
> same servicetype exists. One of the user and one in the global
> environment. In this case it would IMHO be a good idea to perfer
> the service the user has installed himself. How does KSyCoCa handle
> this ?

Since 6 months we use a cascading configuration scheme which handles exactly 
this. See kdelibs/kdecore/kstddirs.h KSycoca makes use of this.

Cheers,
Waldo