On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:23:06PM +0200, Dominique Devriese wrote: > For reference, I sent a patch to Daniel Stone that adds this target, > and he told me he would be committing this. However, Stephan Kulow > told me he would not put any distribution-specific code in > acinclude.m4.in, so it doesn't really help.. I've got two debianrules patches, that both support exporting shell-type variables. I'll be committing today. > Yes, I think this problem is a problem for whole of KDE. Maybe we > should try to make the change in KDE, however this would probably have > to wait for KDE 4 then, since it would not be easy to sanitize the > paths stuff while keeping backward compatibility. *nod*. However, it's never too early to start a discussion (somewhere like -core-devel). > Changing stuff in Debian-specific patches only creates a different set > of annoying compatibility problems, especially for third party source > packages, as you can see from the recent discussion about the problems > caused by kdelibs.dirs.patch. Oh, for sure. I don't think anyone was ever suggesting to make this radical a change in our packages. > Agreed. However, I think that we should maybe try to start a > discussion on kde-core-devel about the KDE install paths policy, so > that it might get fixed in KDE 4. Agreed; I'll start drafting an email. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au> <dstone@kde.org> KDE: Konquering a desktop near you - http://www.kde.org
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