[kde] [Bug 320623] Adds Qt binary path to $PATH breaking qtchooser

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320623

--- Comment #4 from Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #3)
[snip]
> qdbus: could not find a Qt installation of ''
> 
> Probably, that is because of
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710773 . After adding a
> symlink from $HOME/.config/qtchooser/default.conf to
> /usr/share/qtchooser/qt4-x86_64-linux-gnu.conf, my KDE session works again.

That's because of that, most probably. In Debian we default to qt4 when no
option is given, but you have modified your system.

> Now of course I could change startkde to use the qdbus inside the path given
> by Qt, but it may very well me that other parts of KDE rely on qdbus being
> in the PATH. In this case, what would happen if qtchooser uses another qdbus
> than the one of the Qt version KDE was compiled with? Do they all have the
> same interface?

IIRC, upstream never promised so (I could check the mail archives), but so far
should work. And yes, it's a problem :-/

> As the issue I had shows, this makes qtchooser a *very*
> critical tool, a misconfiguration here will break all KDE sessions.

Yes :-/

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