On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 04:57:33PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > On Thursday 17 January 2002 16:12, Daniel Stone wrote: > > No. > > > > Your original complaint was about cluttering the namespace. With this > > solution, not only are you implementing TWO ugly hacks (the > > /usr/lib/kde3 prefix and /usr/bin symlinks), but the namespace stays > > "cluttered". > > /usr/lib/kde3 isn't an ugly hack. why, then large packages which have their > file hierarchies in /usr/lib/<package> implementing an ugly hack? that's not > the case... That IS an ugly hack. The only package I know of that does this is qt2, because that's the way it works, and there's no non-trivial way to make it use the Debian layout without breaking every assumption made. > /usr/bin symlinks doesn't seem very good to me either. another solution is to > write a wrapper script that prepends the required path (startkde3). > there should be a single entry point to using KDE3. that way, you can choose > running kde3 or not in the beginning (which is a good thing), KDE2 apps would > continue running the same way. Oh god, please no. > you would simply move the binaries to /usr/bin which would be the cleanest... > wait, you can't symlink or copy KDE3 binaries to /usr/bin anyway, if you want > to keep KDE2 and KDE3 together. Yes, you can use the autoconf trick to > prepend all binary names with "kde3_" but that's even worse. My suggestion was this, which I did roughly with apache2: if [ echo $i | egrep -i ^kde ]; then NEWNAME=`echo $i | sed -e 's/^kde/kde3/;'` else NEWNAME=`echo $i | sed -e 's/$/3/;'` > Chris, have you been able to provide a set of KDE3 packages that do not kill > KDE2? Not yet. > I suggest you to at least implement: "/usr/share/kde3" under which all KDE3 > ro arch indep data should go in such as "/usr/share/kde/icons". I have no beef with this. This is the sort of sane suggestion I wish you'd come up with more frequently. I've always thought this should be done, as /usr/share is just too cluttered. > Second suggestion is to implement "/usr/lib/kde3" and append the path to > /etc/ld.so.conf like the atlas package does. It's the nicest way to handle > that large collection of libraries. ICK, NO. -d -- Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net> <robster> i'm not so lonely that i need to install emacs
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