> 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? Mess? Ok. I wont argue. He know his options and he can make his choices -- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Qt/Sunrise/Sound] Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org
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