From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 15 11: 8:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rock.ghis.net (rock.ghis.net [209.222.164.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D38937B7B3 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 11:07:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@blackdawn.com) Received: from argon.blackdawn.com ([209.69.76.105]) by rock.ghis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA67828; Mon, 15 May 2000 11:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by argon.blackdawn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7DDC61946; Mon, 15 May 2000 13:40:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 13:40:58 -0400 From: Will Andrews To: Arun Sharma Cc: andrews@technologist.com, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: **HEADS UP** KDE2 -> ports tree Message-ID: <20000515134057.A95803@argon.blackdawn.com> References: <20000515010219.B53719@argon.blackdawn.com> <200005151538.IAA21502@sharmas.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005151538.IAA21502@sharmas.dhs.org>; from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 08:38:59AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 08:38:59AM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > I have both KDE and KDE2 installed on my machine at the same time. The > switch can be done with the following script: > > $ cat $HOME/.kde2 > export KDEDIR=/home/adsharma/kde > export QTDIR=/home/adsharma/kde/qt-copy > export PATH=$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$KDEDIR/lib:$QTDIR/lib > > Given that kde2 still has a lot of bugs and crashes, I'd expect everyone > to have KDE around for non development work. > > How about changing the ports to install in say, /usr/local/kde2 ? I don't know, man, but KDEDIR/QTDIR mentality just doesn't work well with hier(7). ;-\ It seems like one way to fix the problem.. but you are asking to modify 60+ ports to conform to a new method... so you'd better argue this out on -ports before something like that happens. You might want to consider looking at the archives. ;-) -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message