Why does kde-filesystem own /etc/kde4?

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 04 August 2009 03:23:55 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have noticed that kde-filesystem owns the following (empty) directories:
> /etc/kde4
> /etc/kde4/env
> /etc/kde4/kdm
> /etc/kde4/shutdown
> My question is: Why???
>
> KDE 4 looks in /etc/kde just like KDE 3 does, /etc/kde4 is ignored
> entirely, as `kde4-config --path config` will confirm to you. The 3 empty
> subdirectories seem completely unused as well.
>
> If anything is trying to install to those directories, it needs to be fixed
> to install to /etc/kde instead!
>
> I propose we remove /etc/kde4 from kde-filesystem effective immediately.
>
/etc/kde4 is not empty here.  Startup and shutdown files for gpg are there, 
although they are also in /etc/kde.  Please check that removing /etc/kde4 will 
not break gpg startup.

Anne
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