Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 
> Example:
> It he user has
> KDEDIRS="/opt/kde:/usr/local/kde:/home/department/.kde:$HOME/.kde"
> 
> Then the "most specific" directory is "$HOME/.kde"
> the "least specific" directory is "/opt/kde".
> 
> When the user has write access to /usr/local/kde,
> /home/department/.kde and $HOME/.kde
> publishing the application will write it to /usr/local/kde.

Small correction, it should read:

KDEDIRS="$HOME/.kde:/home/department/.kde:/usr/local/kde:/opt/kde"

so that the semantics are similair to the PATH variable.
Thank you Markus for making this clear.

Cheers,
Waldo
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