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Date:      Mon, 15 May 2000 13:40:58 -0400
From:      Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
To:        Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>
Cc:        andrews@technologist.com, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: **HEADS UP**  KDE2 -> ports tree
Message-ID:  <20000515134057.A95803@argon.blackdawn.com>
In-Reply-To: <200005151538.IAA21502@sharmas.dhs.org>; from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 08:38:59AM -0700
References:  <20000515010219.B53719@argon.blackdawn.com> <200005151538.IAA21502@sharmas.dhs.org>

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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.  ;-)

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Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
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