Re: [Fwd: Re: [Dlc-discuss] [Fwd: Linux fragmentation and desktop standards]]

Maks Orlovich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Saturday 12 April 2003 03:08 pm, Daniel Cassidy wrote:
> On Saturday 12 April 2003 12:11 am, Maks Orlovich wrote:
> > > One problem here though, is that it seems to me to be very difficult to
> > > build KDE programs so that they work in a seperate hierarchy to KDE
> > > itself, i.e. if you install KDE in /usr, it seems to be necessary to
> > > install KDE programs in /usr too. This, IMO, is a design fault of KDE.
> >
> > Not difficult at all. You just need to export KDEDIRS, or edit /etc/kderc
>
> I'd agree with you if someone figures out a standard way for RPMs and
> install scripts to modify KDEDIRS as necessary when programs are installed
> to different locations. Although I don't see why this should be necessary
> anyway.

/etc/profile.d, or scriptlets. 

It is necessary since the "locate my data file" code needs to know where to 
search for files, and, further, it should IMHO be controllable in a single 
place for all apps for admin purposes. 


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