On Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009, Markos Chandras wrote: > > 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
please explain me why this option is bad? I can give you examples why it is good: -you can have multiple versions of kde installed (well, you could in the past, until someone started to put crap into python's directories). and - it makes updates risk free. You go from X.Y.Z to X.Y.Z+1 or X.Y+1 - and before you do so, you just copy the whole kde dir. In case of severe bugs (and especially with kde 3 you always had some nasty bugs), you just copy the directory back and can use kde in the hours portage needs to recompile stuff - or in the minutes it needs to install from packages (well, split ebuilds increased that time A LOT).
