Why does kde-filesystem own /etc/kde4?

[Rex Dieter]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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.

/etc/kde4 isn't used anywhere.  If there's stuff in there, you may have 
put there yourself.

Future versions of kde-filesystem will no longer include it.

-- Rex