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Date:      Tue, 04 Sep 2001 02:52:53 -0500
From:      Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com>
To:        "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc:        Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>, will@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/30294: Can't unlock KDE
Message-ID:  <3B948855.9090703@yahoo.com>
References:  <20010904091704.O27939-100000@server.nomadiclab.com> <01090403430201.19266@i8k.babbleon.org>

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Well, there seems to be one change that I have noticed in this version of KDE.  KDE itself won't block you from using xlock, as in 
the previous version.  Just create a link on the desktop to xlock.

Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:

> On Tuesday 04 September 2001 02:20, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 will@FreeBSD.org wrote:
>>
>>>It's not setuid root for security reasons.  See x11/kdebase2/pkg-message.
>>>
>>Ok, but if one performs "make install" in x11/kde2 like I did,
>>this message will be "lost" in the dependency build phase. Maybe
>>this should be displayed at the end of x11/kde2 as well?
>>
> 
> In general, somehow gathering up "critical messages" might be a nice feature 
> for ports.
> 
> In this case, the default results from the install are (IMHO) particularly 
> useless, though, so perhaps instead of it just being a pkg-message, the port 
> could actually stop and prompt the user for a decision about whether or not 
> to chmod or, at least prompt him to acknowledge that he saw the message?
> 
> 
>>Martti

jim
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