On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:03:40PM +0100, Achim Bohnet wrote: > On Friday 12 December 2003 13:31, Thomas Zander wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi, > > > > in the package kdelibs-data the /etc/kderc file is present (its a > > symlink), this is not very nice since that means it becomes impossible to > > have another version of KDE running on the same machine. > > Right. I usualy delete the file. dpkg-divert did not work (tried long ago). I don't understand why deletion is actually needed as mentioned below, but ymmv. > > KDE allows multiple versions by using the KDEDIR env-var to be set before > > calling startkde. Unfortunately the new (own-compiled) version will then > > KDEDIR is no solution for Debian because debian follows the fhs and can't > install everything under a common root KDEDIR. Next environment var are > fragile and error prone. Indeed, I don't even think if Debian tried to use KDEDIR it would work for the reason mentioned below about how kde_confdir works. > > find the paths to the /usr/bin and /usr/lib and start using that, getting > > a nice mix of versions on my desktop. > > > > I recommend to use KDEDIR and friends instead of the kderc file. > > No need for KDEDIR(S): KDE std dir lookup includes > > a) /etc/kderc # used by all KDE installations > b) $kdeconf_dir/system.kdeglobals # aka /etc/kde3/ on Debian > c) hardcoded stuff in kstandarddirs.cpp(.in) > > As a) points to b), a) is just a duplicate but at the same time > confuses other parallel KDE > installations. AFAIR remember most (if not all) vars in system.kdeglobals > are identical to compiled in values in kstandarddirs.cpp(.in). All derived from > debian/debiandirs file. If you don't use /etc/kderc and don't store configs in $prefix/share/config (iow use /etc/kde3) then KDE will not know where to locate other files since it forces everything to be located under the $prefix it was installed in. IOW $kdeconf_dir = $prefix/share/config which is hardcoded into the library itself, yes its a f*cking nasty hack (KDE is filled with them), but I don't know how to patch around it cleanly so I just use the /etc/kderc to override it. Also the KDE lookup looks in KDEDIR before /etc/kderc or did the last time I checked. For example: /home/ccheney/.kde/bin/:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/bin/ with KDEDIR=/opt/kde3 it should show as: /home/ccheney/.kde/bin/:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/bin/ Am I missing something? BTW the only things I have listed in system.kdeglobals now are things that differ from upstream KDE since I realized the others weren't really needed. > Summary: get rid of /etc/kderc, Debians KDE will not notice. For reasons noted above KDE definitely would notice... Chris
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