Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > Hopefully the name of the two different threads is not so similar that > it looks to all as one thread. :-) > > I'm adding K3b to the book. Some preliminary testing has shown that > it will work when installed in a prefix other than $KDE_PREFIX. Note > that this is limited testing and most of my experience and testing of > K3b has been with it installed in $KDE_PREFIX. > > As a rule, we try to install in /usr, if possible. However, K3b is > a KDE application, requires KDE to be installed, and the default > installation (without using --prefix on the configure command line) > results in going into $KDE_PREFIX. Additionally, the maintainer doesn't > support an installation outside of $KDE_PREFIX. > > Where should K3b be installed, /usr or $KDE_PREFIX? >
There appear to be at least three kinds of so called KDE applications: 1) Those that use QT, but don't depend on KDE at all. 2) Those that use KDE libs, but don't depend on the whole of KDE to operate (and none of the KDE infrastructure gets started when they run) 3) True KDE applications that depend on all the KDE infrastructure. Even when they are called Kthing, I install type 1 apps in /usr. Clearly type 3 apps go in $KDE_PREFIX, I would say. The issue is with type 2 apps, and I guess I'd go for $KDE_PREFIX. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
