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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Potential problems for developers (LONG) ignore if you are happy with the status quo
From:       Frerich Raabe <frerichraabe () gmx ! de>
Date:       2001-03-31 17:18:59
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On Saturday 31 March 2001 19:04, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 02:07:50AM -0600, Scott Manson wrote:
> > The attitude of deleting ~.kde smacks of the "windows" way of fixing
> > problems ... gotta problem "reboot or reinstall" Yes I also realize that
> > we are dealing with "complicated" things here but why don't we have a
> > "central place" (EGAD I just said something that sounded vaguely like the
> > windows registry to store individual settings.)
> > The format or what is crucial can be argued upon till Seti finds evidence
> > of intelligent life  or some other argument decides to steal the day. But
> > something needs to be done;  not something that will/could be debated
> > till the "cows come home" or rethink the answer of delete $KDEHOME
>
> Who is suggesting to remove $KDEHOME with a KDE upgrade? Where did you read
> this? I can't find it.

It's actually mentioned in kdesdk/scripts/kde-buildrc, but explicitely marked 
as unnecessary.

> Yes, in the early days of 2.0 it has been suggested as quick hotfix for
> several problems a few times on this development mailing list. But I cannot
> see where this has ever been suggested to our users, as part of the
> announcement text or as part of the KDE release information pages.
> Especially not for stable releases of the 2.x series.

Makes me think that it'd revise that script somewhen...

- Frerich

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