[PATCH] bug 174806

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Sat Apr 11 20:33:29 CEST 2009


Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
>2009/4/11 Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>:
>> Sorry, no. When installing KDE, by default it should not install
>> anything outside its prefix. If I want it to install somewhere else,
>> I'll give it specific paths to do so (like old configure --prefix=/usr
>> --sysconfdir=/etc).
>>
>> I stand by this: when installing, unless told otherwise, install ONLY
>> to your prefix.
>
>Wouldn't this make the user set PYTHONPATH to be able to use the
>installed modules, which, according to Michael, is wrong?

Yes, it would. Or it would force the user to set the path to install when 
configuring KDE.

I don't see why it would be wrong, though. You have to set KDEDIRS for 
KDE, you have to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH for pkg-config, you have to set 
XDG_DATA_DIRS for xdg things, why would Python be different?

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