28 Nov
2011
28 Nov
'11
7:57 a.m.
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:03:13 +0000
Tiago Marques <tiagomnm(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Once upon a time, Gentoo users could have multiple
versions of KDE
installed without any compatibility problems by using the following prefix
system:
- */usr/kde* as the main dir
- /usr/kde/3.5 as the dir for the 3.5 install
- /usr/kde/3.4 as the dir for the 3.4 install
Now, I don't know how it handled the paths in the environment but
everything was transparent and worked great. One would just select which
version to boot on KDM and everything would work fine. I think the session
script was used to set up the proper paths but I'm not sure.
Some path setting occurs in startkde under Gentoo:
# Gentoo: setup environment, filter other slotted KDE installs from PATH
_KDEDIR=/usr/kde/3.5
export PATH=${_KDEDIR}/bin:$(echo ${PATH} | sed
's/$/:/g;s#/usr/kde/[^/]*/s\?bin/\?:##g;s/:$//g')
export ROOTPATH=${_KDEDIR}/sbin:${_KDEDIR}/bin:$(echo ${PATH} | sed
's/$/:/g;s#/usr/kde/[^/]*/s\?bin/\?:##g;s/:$//g')
export LDPATH=/usr/kde/3.5/lib:/usr/kde/3.5/lib64:/usr/kde/3.5/lib32:${LDPATH}
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=${_KDEDIR}/share:$(echo ${XDG_DATA_DIRS} | sed
's/$/:/g;s#/usr/kde/[^/]*/share/\?:##g;s/:$//g')
Presumably, the seds are the filter that handle other versions of KDE.