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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Installing KDE from CVS and permissions
From:       Rolf Magnus <ramagnus () zvw ! de>
Date:       2001-06-23 13:48:22
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On Saturday 23 June 2001 13:53, David Faure wrote:

> > yes, i added this. as you said, it breaks non-root installations, so it
> > must be changed somehow. i'm working on this.
>
> You could simply add a '-' before the line that installs that file,
> so that if it fails, it will ignore the error, and move on without
> aborting.
>
> For people that don't use kdm (or use an older version of it), it doesn't
> matter much if it installs well or not. For those who do, they should run
> make install as root anyway. Hmm, but it won't make it easy to see the
> error, in case you actually use kdm...
> Maybe a global --without-kdm might be a better idea then ?

I use kdm, but I also use my self-made compile script to compile and install 
KDE, and afterwards I do a chown root.root -R * in the kde directory so I 
only have to su once after the script (instead of in the script once for 
every kde package). This would break in this case. Why was it changed?


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