Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
Some members of the KDE team have been talking for some time about having a FHS compliant install (define KDE prefix as /usr instead of /usr/kde/<version>).
What are benefits of such a change? What happens when KDE release a version breaking ABI (like "KDE 5")?
Right now [1], there's a conflict between some non-kdelibs kde3 libraries (kexiv2, kdcraw) from KDE3 and KDE4, mainly KDE4 applications being linked with KDE3 libraries. I don't expect ABI breakage in 4.x, but what happens after it?
Will I be able to use my desktop in the middle of an upgrade from 4.x to 4.(x+1), when only half of the packages are already updated?
In case someone is thinking on suggesting it, ignoring FHS or not allowing the install of multiple versions are not valid solutions to this problem.
I might have missed something in your mail, but if you put, say, 4.1 and 4.2 libraries straight into /usr/lib, are you completely positive stuff won't break?
[1] "Now" being the 3.5.9 release in Portage tree and 4.1.0 in an overlay Cheers, -jkt -- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth
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