Review Request 120040: Install kdesu under bin

[Marco Martin]

On Sept. 2, 2014, 6:37 p.m., Marco Martin wrote:
> > I'm a bit worried by the multitude of user and distro specific scripts that rely on kdesu being present :/
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> Marco Martin wrote:
>     to me either way it gets fixed i'm ok.
>     the other option is to keep it called kdesu, so it wouldn't be coinstallable so distributions would need to make kdesu a package of its own, alternative with the kde4 kdesu, but it may look even more problematic to me
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> David Faure wrote:
>     Scripts will just have to be updated, just like scripts calling kioclient4, kde4-config, kstart, kdecp, kbuildsycoca4 and so many other things.
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>     We can't have both source-compat-for-scripts and co-installability. It's one or the other.

Any updates on that?
is this the right approach or should i try something else?


- Marco


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On Sept. 2, 2014, 6:27 p.m., Marco Martin wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 2, 2014, 6:27 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and Plasma.
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> Repository: kde-cli-tools
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> Description
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> this is a part of adressing the bug
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338755
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338756
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> in kde4 kdesu was installed under bin, and should still, being something that should be invokable 
> but renames it to kdesu5, for coinstallability reasons
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> therefore, kio/src/core/desktopexecparser.cpp should be modified to search for kdesu5 instead of kdesu
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> Diffs
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>   kdesu/CMakeLists.txt 2a70831 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120040/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Marco Martin
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