Idea for KDE Project

[James Richard Tyrer]

Kevin Krammer wrote:
>
> You would still need KDEDIRS to allow local, self compiled packages to go 
> into a different directory.

But why would you want to do that?  Except that is for the "/usr vs. 
/usr/local issue.

> It think it does not matter where a distribution puts its KDE files, 
> because you can put your self compiled programs whereever you want.

Your major premise is correct, but the reason is that you can use 
KDEDIRS to solve the problem.  So, if you have a long enough path in 
KDEDIRS, then you can put KDE stuff all over the place.  I personally 
find this to be a horrible mess so I install all of the KDE 3 
applications in: /usr/kde3/ and all of the GNOME 2 applications in: 
/usr/gnome2/.  Very neat and tidy.

I also note that once you have set the KDEDIR environment variable 
that it is the default for self compiled KDE programs to be installed 
there.

--
JRT

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