On Tuesday 18 January 2005 10:14, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Dienstag, 18. Januar 2005 14:46 schrieb Derek Broughton: > > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 08:06, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > > I just looked at the chosen names and do not understand the reason for > > > it: - Why is it /etc/kde3 but ~/.kde? > > I meant whey they have different names in /etc and home (hidden files are > normal and good). Keeping the /etc/kde2 around results in never removing > them, even on a purge? I do not quite understand why there not a > simple /etc/kde. Keeping backup of the old files is part of the > administrator job, not the package maintainers duty.
It's a fair argument, but I've listened to too many administrators complain that there was no way to back out of a change. When it's as big a change as kde3, it makes sense. I don't remember now how I got rid of the kde2 files - I think I manually removed them at some point. > > > > - Why are the .DCOP* files not in ~/.kde? Does anything else use dcop? > > > > Anything else _can_. I don't know what else does. > > As long as it's not standardized at freedesktop.org, nothing else than KDE > will use it. First you have to demonstrate how useful it is, then you have to convince the other people it's a worthwhile standard, _then_ they start to use it. > > > - Why does ~/.kpackage exist? > > > Hmm, knode does not use it's own directory but uses .kde/share/apps/knode, > kpackage oddity/bug, it seems. Good point. I have only two kde apps with their own directory directly under my home, and the other one was a game that's long since been removed. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
