On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:08:50PM +0100, Achim Bohnet wrote: > Package: kdm > Version: 4:3.2.0-0pre1v1 > Severity: normal > > > kdm 3.2.0 from people repo installs config files in /usr/share/config/kdm. > The files in this this have additional hardcoded path to the same dir. > Unfortunately /usr/share/config is _not_ a link to /etc/kde3 but a real > dir. > > Strange is that kdm ignores the /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc despite the fact > that kde-config --path config lists: > /root/.kde/share/config/:/etc/kde3/:/usr/share/config/ > > Proposed solution: Continue to not install /etc/kderc and make > /usr/share/config > a link to /etc/kde3. Additionally the patch in kdm/* should be > adjusted to use /etc/kde3/... paths and not /usr/share/config.
Installing directly into /etc/kde3 is not a good solution for the upstream "config" files since dpkg at various times decides not to install the config files at all, which completely breaks KDE. This has been the source of problems with KDE in Debian for a long time. However, I will bug upstream about the problem with respect to it not looking in kde-config --path config. Chris
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