Alex Alexander wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 23:07, Volker Armin > Hemmann<volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > Its not that simple > KDE wasn't designed to work like this, kdeprefix is a Gentoo Thing > that is not supported by upstream. > > Multiple issues can arise when using kdeprefix, things not working, > misc kde4 apps linking to wrong kde4 versions, etc. > > If you know what you're doing (and how to fix stuff when it breaks ;) > kdeprefix can be useful. But its primarily meant for developers who > want to test newer kde versions. Most users should stick to -kdeprefix > which is widely tested and its upgrade path is cleaner and thoroughly > checked before each release. > Have the OpenOffice.org problems with -kdeprefix been fixed? When KDE4 entered the tree, you couldn't build OpenOffice unless you enabled kdeprefix because it chose the KDE4 libs over the KDE3 libs.
Sebastian
