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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Multiple KDE setups
From:       Kurt Granroth <kurt_granroth () email ! mot ! com>
Date:       1999-05-05 16:57:34
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Andreas Pour wrote:
> This sounds like it would work, but unfortunately breaks source and binary
> compatability with existing apps (many have "getenv(HOME) + "/.kde""
> hardcoded into the program).

Breaking source/binary compatability is not a problem in the HEAD branch.  The
apps that have $HOME/.kde hardcoded in them are "wrong" even for 1.1.1 much
less 2.0

> There is one way, though, that depending on what machine you are on you can
> use a different ".kde" subdir w/out any software changes.  Assuming you have
> proper permissions in /etc/exports of "host" (presumably you have this
> already since you are mounting $HOME remotely), you just need an entry in
> /etc/fstab like:
> 
>     host:/home/user/.desktop-ken       /home/user/.kde             nfs
>     auto,user,exec,rw,bg,soft  1
> 
> Now .destkop-ken can be a symlink to .kde or its own directory tree.
> 
> The obvious drawback is you need the sys-admin to get involved for creating
> the above /etc/fstab entry.  But, it is only the sysadmin of the local
> machine on which you are working, which often is you :-).

AUGH!!  Definitely *not* an option.  We should reserve sysadmin tasks to the
VERY bare minimmum and then only for those cases where there is no way around
it!  There can definitely a way around this problem without involving a
sysadmin :-)
-- 
Kurt Granroth
granroth@kde.org
http://www.pobox.com/~kurt_granroth

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