From owner-freebsd-ports Fri May 19 13:49:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 916E837BAA5 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 13:49:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.157]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 19 May 2000 13:49:39 -0700 Message-ID: <3925A8D3.F4609B5E@3-cities.com> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 13:49:23 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig (BOSS Internet Group) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Blachowicz Cc: Will Andrews , The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE2: make install 'fails' ... References: <20000519004127.A41103@argon.blackdawn.com> <392587F7.5CD4317B@3-cities.com> <20000519114532.A85002@sabami.seaslug.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Scott Blachowicz wrote: > > On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 11:29:11AM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > I installed kde2 from the port yesterday. One of the problems is > > flip-floping from kde-2.x to kde-1.x. It wouldn't be to bad if you > > could do a make deinstall from kdk2 and a make reinstall from kde11 > > and have it work. What you end up having to do is delete them all and > > remake from scratch. The only thing you save is the fetching time. > > Well...I'm trying to do this > > cd /usr/ports/x11/kde2 > make PREFIX=/usr/X11R6/kde2 > > so I can hopefully flip to kde2 by just altering which kdm I run and > adjusting my $PATH value to point at the new dir tree first. The > above has finished, but it looks like the LIB_DEPENDS is shorter than > the RUN_DEPENDS for that meta-port...I found that out when I saw that > complete successfully and went to go do a 'make install'. Now it's > busy fetching kdebase... > > Of course, time (and luck) will tell if the above plan will work... > :-)) I think this is very important. When you are presented with choices such as kde/kde2 and not everything works, you need to be able to get it done using the other version. I have more than enough disk but it is my time that is the short side of things. If something doesn't work on kde2, you need to be able to switch to kde and get it done. It should also be a easy and quick thing. I don't imagine this would happen very often but I could imagine logging in and switching at that point. I also can't imagine that all of my user account would be running on the same version of kde. Somethings just don't work with Qt-2. I have wanted to be able to use kword for some time. I have a lot of documents in MS Word and I hate booting to Win 2K on the system I want to test kde2 on just to use them. I have a copy of WordPerfect 8 for linux on a CD and can use it but there are differences. I would hope Kword has fewer warts by comparison. Kent > > -- > Scott Blachowicz -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message