On Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009, Markos Chandras wrote: > > On Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009, Markos Chandras wrote: > > > > Barring the somewhat humorous ending to this warning from my latest > > > > updates to KDE, I'm a little concerned by the import of the message. > > > > Can someone enlighten me? > > > > > > > > > > > > * WARNING! You have kdeprefix useflag enabled. > > > > * This setting is strongly discouraged and might lead to potential > > > > troubles * with KDE update strategies. > > > > * You are using this setup at your own risk and kde team does not > > > > * take responsibilities for dead kittens. > > > > > > > > > > > > What update strategies are being considered that would break by using > > > > this? And was this a KDE message directly? Or is this a warning > > > > from the Gentoo KDE devs? > > > > > > This is a warning message from Gentoo KDE devs . kdeprefix is a gentoo > > > thingie and it not supported by official KDE upstream. Thus I might not > > > work that well. It is only advised to use it if you want to have > > > kde:4.2 and :live together. I would recommend to disable it globally > > > and run emerge -uDN world > > > > and I wouldn't touch it and ignore the message. > > > > kde has a long history of not installing into /usr directly - and that > > was always a good thing. > > The message exists there for a reason. It is up to the user whether he > ignores it or not. As a member of Gentoo KDE team I would advice him to > drop kdeprefix
why? to make it harder to clean up after a mess? so that future kde versions trip over each other?
