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Re: KDE directory layout



On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:11:41PM -0500, Merv Curley wrote:
> On November 4, 2001 12:30 pm, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> 
> >
> > I really think KDE 2.x ought to go into
> >   /usr/lib/kde2
> > and KDE3.x into
> >   /usr/lib/kde3
> >
> > (or a finer-grained directory organization /usr/share/kde2, etc.)
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> 
> I would vote for anything but the present system.  I understand that the /opt 
> directory is a verboten subject here but if I can be sure that Debian 
> respects the variables qtdir, kdedir  etc  - I intend to try and compile qt 
> 2.3.x and kde 2.2.1 to their own directories. 
> 
> All the problems I see,  could be solved with the use of a few symlinks [ to 
> get back to a working KDE ].

excuse me?  

  1:  Debian respects KDEDIR if it were used.  But even upstream doesn't use
it unless the user set's it.
  2:  QTDIR is respected if you set it.  
  3:  FHS
  4:  I don't understand the problems you are having?  I have never had a
problem building a KDE or a QT based application.  If QTDIR needs to be set
all you have to do is export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt and be done with it.  KDE 
apps build out of the box without having to set a thing unless the application
author did something wrong.  
  
Ivan
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