Re: kde upgrades = risks, hassles, annoyances.

[daniel <danstemporaryaccount@xxxxxxxx>]

On April 5, 2005 01:12 pm, Basil Fowler wrote:
> I compile new versions of KDE from source using Konstructor.  It is time
> consuming, but automatic.  The great advantage is that you can set the
> installation directory to be what you like (I use /opt/kde<version>.  So I
> have the old and new versions sitting side by side.  I then can set the
> environment parameters KDEDIR(S) to point to the new version.  This can be
> done on a system level in /etc/profile or at a user level in
> $HOME/.profile.

you may want to check out gentoo (www.gentoo.org).  everything's compiled from 
source and big builds (like kde) can be slotted so you can have 3.3.x and 3.4 
on the same machine.

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