KStandardDirs and Autopackage

[Leo Savernik]

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Am Mittwoch 14 April 2004 15:58 schrieb Arend van Beelen jr.:
> On Wednesday 14 April 2004 12:38, Waldo Bastian wrote:
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> > How do you make sure that the KDE runtime environment knows about this
> > applications, its icons, its mimetypes, etc.. ?
>
> It doesn't. The most important point is that the application can run on its
> own no matter where it's installed. Of course, the installation script
> should then make sure the .desktop files and icons are registered with KDE,
> probably by making symlinks.

Aaah! Symlinks are the way to go. That way, if one deletes the application 
bundle, the stale symlinks under KDEDIRS can be spotted immediately, and also 
be deleted.

Yay! That'd finally allow complete uninstallation of KDE stand-alone apps 
without any package manager, and without any residue.

>
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