On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 20:37 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 01/11/2011 05:27 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > Yes, why don't we tweak upstream so that an unsupported older version > > can run alongside. > > > > Nothing against kde3, but if you want to use older versions, you're > > responsible to solve the incompatibilities (which you're trying to do) > > and perhaps maintain your own patches for whatever is needed. I do not > > see a need to change Arch's 'official' packaging for this. > > > > > > I now know what the problem is. The current kde4 build will create a: > > /var/tmp/kdecache-<user>/ksyscoca > and > /var/tmp/kdecache-<user>/ksyscoca4 > > if kde3 is left installed on the system. This is a bug. kde4 shouldn't generate > a 'k'de 'sys'tem 'co'nfiguration 'ca'che for kde3 -- period. Removing kde3 does > indeed solve the problem, but I notice no requirement to do so on the wiki. Do > we want to drop a note there? > IMO there's no need, anymore than we should 'require' on the wiki for people to stop using gcc 3.6.
