From kde-devel  Sun Apr 30 17:53:40 2006
From: Frans Englich <englich () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:53:40 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: using kde-config for KDE detection
Message-Id: <200604301805.18313.englich () kde ! org>
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On Sunday 30 April 2006 17:45, Karol Pietrzak wrote:
> On Sunday 30 April 2006 12:32, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 April 2006 18:17, Karol Pietrzak wrote:
> > > Hello everyone.
> > >
> > > I've got two questions relating to kde-config:
> > > 1. When did kde-config start appearing in KDE installations?  I seem to
> > > have found references online mentioning it in KDE 3.0.3 installations.
> > > Has it existed all the way back to 3.0.x?
> >
> > Yes, according to http://tinyurl.com/feg8l it has been tagged with
> > KDE_3_0_RELEASE
> >
> > > 2. Is using kde-config reliable?  SuSE Linux puts kde-config in the
> > > kdelibs package, so it is always present when KDE is installed.
> > > However, I'm sure there is some distribution out there that puts
> > > kde-config into a -devel package or something.  Anyone know off-hand of
> > > any such complications?
> >
> > That would be pretty stupid, as it is not a development related tool but
> > rather meant to be used in KDE related shell scripts or similar, often
> > used by system administrators.
> >
> > At least nowadays it is also used in the KDE startup script startkde, so
> > kdebase would depend on a devel package which I find pretty unlikely.
>
> OK.  Seeing a lack of documentation on kde-config, I decided to start a
> Wiki FAQ page on the matter.

You really should write that as a man page, I'd say. It's written in Docbook, 
see for example:

http://lxr.kde.org/source//KDE/kdebase/doc/kfind/man-kfind.1.docbook


Cheers,

		Frans
 
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