The kde 3.0.3 ebuild patches the startkde script so that it overwrites the existing KDEDIRS environment variable from env.d, with the fixed value "/usr/kde/3:/usr". I understand that this is to avoid problems if env.d sets up an environment variable with directories that contain KDE-version-specific stuff. A problem with this policy is that a system administrator does not have a good way of supplying his own entry in KDEDIRS, without modifying startkde. I think a better policy would be for env.d to set up KDE-version-independant KDEDIRS, and for startkde to *add* its version-dependant directories onto the existing KDEDIRS. (see gentoo-user list thread starting at http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-user/2002-August/030322.html )
That's true. The problem I expected to see was, that the KDEDIRS you set in env.d are the ones you get in a shell or konsole. And if you only set e.g. KDEDIRS=/usr in env.d, you won't be able to run the main kde apps that live in $KDEDIR from the shell. However this does not happen. KDE, at least the current cvs which I'm using, is smart enough to access either $KDEDIR, or the kdelibs pefix, or the app install prefix, or all of these. I'll have to verify that this is also true for kde 3.0.x because I seem to remember that when $KDEDIR wasn't in $KDEDIRS apps misbehaved. Assuming this isn't a problem and that I was wrong about it, your proposition makes perfect sense and I'll implement it.
Fixed in the new masked revisions kdebase 3.1-r1, 3.0.5a-r2.
Well I emerged the r1 "bugfix" resulting in KDE 3.1 trow me this dialog at startup: Could not start process Unable to create io-slave klauncher said: unknown protocol 'file' The kde started with a krippled menu where only my bookmarks was left, but notting there was runnable anyhow. So had to logout from 3.1 and into 3.05a to "downgrade" kdelibs and kdebase getting my kde 3.1 final working again. Maybe it's not such good idea to mark this bugfix as stable...
Joakim, could it be that your env.d files weren't updated correctly when you emerged the new revisions due to config file protection? If you had the new startkde but the old env.d files (the new ones being ._cfg000_foo'd), what you describe might (??) have happened. I believe noone else has reported this although the packages are now unmasked in the ~arch profiles, so it can't be a universal problem with the new ebuilds.
Ops didn't seam to get any mail about your reply... anyhow, I use to be very careful to always update the ._cfg000* files but possibly I could have missed it but there is none left in /etc/env.d/ anyhow, here is how it looks now (runing pure 3.1): solar root # ls -al /etc/env.d/ total 110 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 856 Feb 7 10:25 . drwxr-xr-x 69 root root 3960 Feb 7 10:26 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 5 13:58 .keep -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 399 Feb 5 13:58 00basic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17 Feb 7 08:00 01hostname -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 312 Feb 6 15:34 05gcc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34 Feb 7 07:23 09opengl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42 Dec 17 05:39 10acroread5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40 Feb 2 21:19 10rar -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182 Feb 7 07:21 10xfree -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 538 Oct 2 12:12 20java -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21 Jan 11 18:16 20jetadmin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 Jan 2 21:15 30java-finalclasspath -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 Jan 31 20:25 40kdedir-2.2.2a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83 Feb 7 10:25 45qt3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16 Oct 2 12:11 45qtdir2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 152 Feb 1 22:09 49kdelibs-3.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 Dec 27 01:20 50kdedir-3.0.5a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63 Oct 2 12:11 50qt2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16 Feb 7 10:25 50qtdir3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35 Oct 10 23:52 51tmake -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Feb 1 22:09 56kdedir-3.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 124 Dec 27 01:20 65kdelibs-3.0.5a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 Jan 31 20:25 70kdelibs-2.2.2a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 Jan 3 02:47 70less -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22 Oct 13 22:15 80wine-doc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70 Jan 2 14:57 90vmware -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Oct 3 02:47 99kde-env drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 152 Feb 6 15:34 gcc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 176 Jan 2 21:17 java -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 963 Feb 2 15:43 zope.envd I will give it a try again, now with the r2 fixes and cross my fingers...
It went ok this time, but now kdebase-3.1-r1 wont compile. It's not part of this so will look around and see if it's reported or open a bug for it.
What's the status on this? Can we close it?
Sorry for not closing this one sooner. Yes, this is working very well now. Thankyou.
