kdelibs 3/kdebase 4 co-installable ?

[Allen Winter]

On Saturday 13 October 2007 6:50:25 pm Armin Berres wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 07 14:31, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> > On 8/13/07, Fathi Boudra <fboudra at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > in the similar idea of the kdelibs 3/4 conflicts thread,
> > > any plans to make kdelibs 3/kdebase 4 co-installable ?
> > >
> > > so far, we have kdelibs 3 and kdelibs/kdepimlibs 4 co-installable.
> > > we have tested kdelibs/kdepimlibs/kdebase 4 with kdelibs 3 and conflicts:
> > >
> > > /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/*/actions/knewstuff.png
> > > /usr/bin/kcmshell
> > > /usr/bin/kstartupconfig
> > > /usr/bin/kioexec
> > > /usr/bin/khotnewstuff
> > > /usr/bin/kfile
> > > /usr/bin/imagetops
> > > /usr/bin/kinstalltheme
> > > /usr/bin/kdostartupconfig
> 
> > I didn't realize that this was a problem still, but pusling (fearless debian
> > dude) was telling me that this problem still exists today.
> 
> I just had a short look and it seems as if the following files conflict
> right now (KDE3 3.5.8 vs. KDE4 Beta3):
> 
> /usr/share/emoticons/Default/*.png
> /usr/bin/imagetops
> /usr/bin/kcmshell
> /usr/bin/kfile 
> /usr/bin/kdostartupconfig
> /usr/bin/khotnewstuff
> /usr/bin/kstartupconfig
> /usr/bin/ksvgtopng
> 
> Other files are part of the Development packages which aren't
> coinstallable anyway.
> 
> > I know we went to some degree of effort in trying to pre-empt this with the
> > likes of kbuildsycoca4, etc.  Is there a strategy for getting past the
> > kdelibs3/kdebase4 package conflicts, does anyone know?
> 
> IMHO it is really really important to find a solution for this problem.
> I guess people would be quite annoyed when applications aren't ported to
> KDE4 yet, but they can't use the KDE3 applications.
> 
Yes, we need to fix this.

Please post a proposal for new names so we can comment and
then make the necessary fixes.

-Allen