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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: kde 2 final & kde 1.x apps
From:       paul.c.leopardi () ac ! com
Date:       2000-10-03 22:51:52
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Will KDE2.0 overwrite kde1.x in /usr ? How do you know this? Where is this
documented? Which developers or packagers have said this?



I am currently running KDE1.94 side by side with KDE 1.1.2 on SuSE Linux
7.0.

KDE 1.94 is in /opt/kde2 KDE 1.1.2 is in /opt/kde



The SuSE RPMs for KDE 1.94 contain their own version of QT and install into
/opt/kde2

See ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/distribution/2.0Beta5/rpm/SuSE/
README



If KDE 2.0 will install over the top of KDE 1.1.2 into /opt/kde it is
likely that some of the KDE 1.X apps will break. We as beta testers needed
to test this. But it looks like there were two types of beta testers:



1. Those who used the RPMs and other binaries which installed KDE 1.9X side
by side with KDE 1.1.X

2. Those who compiled KDE 1.9X for themselves after removing KDE 1.1.X



Only the second type of beta tester would have been able to test to see if
the KDE 1.9X libraries broke existing KDE 1.1.X apps. The first type of
beta tester would have continued to use the KDE 1.1.X libraries. I am among
the first type of beta tester.

I would really like the SuSE packager for KDE 2.0 to clear up my confusion
here.

Otherwise I will just keep using KDE 1.94 plus KDE 1.1.2 until some time
after KDE 2.0 is released, to see where it is supposed to install and see
which KDE 1.1.X apps break.

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