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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE in prefix install
From:       Michael Pyne <mpyne () kde ! org>
Date:       2018-03-31 21:24:47
Message-ID: 20180331212447.GA8369 () midna
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:19:26PM +0200, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 29. März 2018 03:26:08 CEST Michael Pyne wrote:
> > I can document that.  I assume the Wiki page for building from source is
> > where you would expect to find that?  Or were you looking at the
> > docs.kde.org documentation for kdesrc-build?
> > 
> > However you find it, you can use the "make-install-prefix" option to
> > control use of sudo, su -c, or other super-user programs.
> > 
> > e.g.
> > 
> > options kscreen
> >     make-install-prefix sudo
> > end options
> > 
> > This might be good to put into the sample configuration available in the
> > kdesrc-build repository as well, which might even be what you were
> > talking about.
> > 
> 
> Note we would need something additional, since kscreen currently doesn't try 
> to install those /etc/dbus-1 files, plus more than just kscreen needs them, 
> and it can be done with two simple files like I said in another email. So this 
> should probably be something done by more generic module, by kdesrc-build 
> itself, or maybe by a small script provided by kdesrc-build and mentioned in 
> documentation.

I haven't thought how I want to fix this in the meantime so I've opened
a bug so I don't forget.  Bug 392581 for this one, and 392580 for the
documentation improvement in the other thread.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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