20 Jan
2012
20 Jan
'12
1:02 a.m.
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:31:50 -0800 (PST)
Darrell Anderson <humanreadable(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Yes, the installations are made to /usr/kde/[version]/bin under Gentoo...
however, doesn't the system search the $PATH directories in order?
Placing the Trinity bin directory first should cause its contents to take
precedence over what's in /usr/bin if there's a naming conflict, shouldn't
it?
The solution
used by Gentoo for installing KDE3 and KDE4 in
parallel was to filter the
$PATH variable in startkde by using sed--if the startkde
for KDE3 was invoked, KDE4
directories would be filtered out of the path, and
vice-versa. That fixes most of the
problems you describe (invoking a KDE4 application while
running KDE3/Trinity
does require the full path to be given, but that's a minor
flaw compared to not knowing
which app you're going to be getting), although I admit it
isn't elegant.
A challenge with that solution is when KDE4 apps are installed in /usr/bin. Tough to
filter that location from the $PATH variable. :) I'm curious how that was achieved,
unless in Gentoo KDE4 executables are installed someplace unique rather than /usr/bin.