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Subject: Re: [Kde-pim] Make KDE PIM 4 installable in parallel to KDE PIM 3
From: "Michael S. Mikowski" <z_mikowski () yahoo ! com>
Date: 2007-10-23 2:20:43
Message-ID: 200710221920.43850.z_mikowski () yahoo ! com
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Kubuntu, a Debian-based system, puts kde4 applicatins in a completely
separate directory like this, e.g:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/kde4/lib
export KDEDIRS=/usr/lib/kde4
export PATH=/usr/lib/kde4/bin/:$PATH
export KDEHOME=~/.kde4
So maybe there is hope :)
Cheers, Mike
On Monday 22 October 2007, David Faure wrote:
> On Sunday 21 October 2007, Mike Arthur wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 October 2007 17:14:46 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > Some applications might want to install data files, e.g.
> > > KAddressBook has CSV templates which are installed into
> > > prefix/share/apps/kaddressbook. A KDE PIM 4 package would have to
> > > use prefix/share/apps/kaddressbook4 or rename all the files.
> >
> > Gentoo has a different prefix for each major KDE version.
> > e.g. /usr/kde/3.5 and /usr/kde/4.0
> >
> > What is wrong with this approach?
>
> Nothing. It's much easier to handle indeed, especially in times like
> now.
>
> But you won't convince debian and debian-like systems to do that :)
--
Mike
www.dynaorg.com
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