In <200904161822.03422.d_ba...@012.net.il>, David Baron wrote: >On Thursday 16 April 2009 18:16:21 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <200904161610.57353....@alaxarxa.net>, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: >> >I administrate several boxes and I would like to have some box >> > with unstable (kde 4.2.2) and stable (kde 3.5.9) using the same /home >> > for the users (ergo .kde) >> > >> >So, is this possible? >> Not really. But, this really shouldn't be much of an issue. Sharing a >> .kde directory between KDE 3.4 and KDE 3.5 wasn't completely supported. >> >> In practice, sharing a .kde directory between KDE 3.4 and KDE 3.5 only >> caused a few errors. In theory sharing a .kde directory between KDE 3.5 >> and KDE 4.2 will probably cause more. >> >> I suggest that you set KDE_HOME in your global environment on the >> different systems. Using "~/.kde<major>.<minor>", for example .kde3.5 >> and .kde4.2, should be sufficient. I think KDE_HOME is the only thing >> that needs to be set, but you might want to double-check me. >I am doing it this way. Might also need to set PATHs to favor the target > KDE version as well.
That shouldn't be required unless a "bin" directory is also shared between systems. Users should be semi-responsible for anything in ~/bin (or other directories they are adding to their PATH). >> I still have a .kde3.4 and a .kde3.5 (.kde is a symlink) from doing >> something similar for different reasons. >Name your poison. I'm not completely sure what it was, but I think it was back when I was running Gentoo and installing KDE 3.5 betas. It was something done automagically for me, IIRC. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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