Re: FreeBSD vs Red Hat 9: ARGH!

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On Tuesday October 28 2003 15:46, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> Rob Kaper <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I suppose that Red Hat's KDE code and FreeBSD's KDE code could be
> > different versions or at least different configurations/compilations,
> > both working on the same NFSed home directory (oops, folder!) with the
> > same $KDEDIRS ..
>
> Yes same home directory and $KDEDIR...  that's the way it has to be if
> the KDE applications are going to be storing data and stuff.
>
> One of the problems is, for instance the Red Hat konqueror.desktop
> file is not located in the same place as the FreeBSD konqueror.desktop
> file.
>
> > I know there are some issues with running multiple KDE versions on the
> > same configuration files. Forward is never a problem, but going back a
> > version can cause problems. :-|
>
> This is a serious problem.
>
> > Unless that's already the case, the best bet would probably be for the
> > sysadmin to deinstall KDE on both systems and compile the same KDE
> > version, vanilla or patched in the same way from source.
>
> There's no way I'm going to ask for that...  afaik the workstations
> here have the minimal customizations necessary to the basic distros,
> for easy version upgrades.  Our sysadmins are busy enough as it is
> without having to deal with a major KDE redeployment.

Maybe something easier would be to have diferent .kde directories depending on 
the OS/arch so, users would have .kde-rh and .kde-fbsd for example... I know, 
not ideal, but better than gnome vs kde. If they log using kdm, it should be 
easy to set up a diferent KDEHOME. Hope it helps.

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