Conflict between KDE and GNOME in a prefix...

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 03:43 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> We, FreeBSD GNOME Team, have successed to move GNOME from X11BASE to  
> LOCALBASE. There are three files that are conflict between KDE and GNOME.  
> The two files that need to be fix in the KDE side and another file that is  
> need to be fix both in the GNOME and KDE sides.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/conflict_prefix.txt
> 
> etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu:
> =============================================
> GNOME and KDE teams will have to figure how to solve this problem. Take  
> the looks at the other Linux distros or so would be a good start. If you  
> have any good suggest, let us know.

We might need to create a small port that just handles conflicting files
such as this one.  applications.menu is not huge, and should be
interchangeable between GNOME and KDE.

> =============================================
> 
> libdata/pkgconfig/system-tools-backends.pc:
> =============================================
> Need to be fix in the KDE side, not sure why kdeadmin installs  
> system-tools-backends's file? How about disable install it or have  
> kdeadmin depends on sysutils/system-tools-backends?

Agreed.  Depending on system-tools-backends will not bring in any
unnecessary GNOME baggage for KDE.

> =============================================
> 
> share/icons/hicolor/index.theme:
> =============================================
> Need to be fix in the KDE side. The kdelibs will have to change the path  
> or/and create patch, because hicolor-icon-theme is a fd.org icon standard.  
> The hicolor-icon-theme is not exactly a GNOME stuff, which it's for  
> general desktops.

Same as above.  misc/hicolor-icon-theme does not depend on any GNOME
bits, so adding a dependency on it should not be a big deal, yes?

What say you, kde@?

Joe

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