Yo!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Faure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 6:41 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] KOffice packages
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 06:09:46PM -0500, David Walluck wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, David Faure wrote:
> >
> > > Note that all KDE-2 packages (mine and nebsllc's) use /opt/kde2, so
> > > using both KDEs is no problem. See
> http://www.kde.org/kde1-and-kde2.html
> > > for how to set up KDE 1
> and KDE 2 for the same user (you can run apps
> > > of one from the other, and you can even select in
i _still_ prefer /usr/kde2!! maybe that could be a suggestion for the kde2
release rpm. what i'm suggesting, is that since kde is so big, we could have
a "root" for kde stuff. i.e. /usr/kde2/bin for binaries, /usr/kde2/sbin,
/usr/kde2/share, /usr/kde2/lib etc.
kdm which one to use
> > > at login time).
> >
> > Why are the cooker one's different...
> I told you, because they only include koffice, not kde 2.
>
> > seeing how you are working for
> > Mandrake, and yours are "better", why not distribute yours in Mandrake
> > instead?
> They're not "better", they're different in that they don't
> provide a desktop
> but an office suite, possibly for inclusion in 7.1.
> KDE-2 is not ready to be used by "the masses", which is why it's not part
> of it.
> And I also like the fact that it finally proves that KOffice does
> NOT require
> kde 2 (nor even kde 1). It's a complete office suite that can be run
> under any window manager / desktop.
>
maybe i'll download koffice during the weekend and see what it's like. the
screenshots look very good btw.
> > Also, if /opt is relocatable to /usr then that would work, or I
> could even
> > do rpm --badrelocate /opt=/usr *.rpm.
> I wouldn't do that ;-)
> I'm afraid /opt/kde2 is hardcoded in the wrapper scripts used by my
> koffice packages ... :-}
>
> But you can grab the sources and compile them using the prefix
> you want ;-)
>
hmm...i might think about compiling in --prefix=/usr/kde2 as an experiment
and see hwo things go. :-) :-)
Geoff.
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