Christian Couder <chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Le vendredi 21 mars 2008, Junio C Hamano a écrit : > ... >> For example, if a distro offers two versions of konq to co-exist on the >> same system as konqueror-3 and konqueror-4 (with the usual symlink tricks >> /etc/alternatives/konqueror -> konqueror-3 and /usr/bin/konqueror -> >> /etc/alternatives/konqueror to make one version the systemwide default), >> people who want a particular version may say /usr/bin/konqueror-4 and >> would get frustrated to see kfmclient magic would not kick in. By taking >> honest route without magic, you would not have to worry about such >> potential confusion. > > In my experience KDE people have never changed the binary names like that. > They just use (or advice users to use) different directory names and change > environment variables (QTDIR, KDEDIR and maybe others) to point to the new > dirs. I was more worried about what distro people do, not "KDE people". For example, Contents-i386.gz file from an unnamed distribution lists a handful /usr/bin/k*[0-9] files with their counterparts without the trailing digit. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
