Why does kde-filesystem own /etc/kde4?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 4 16:31:36 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 04 August 2009 16:22:01 Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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.
>
OK, that's fine.  I probably did when, at the beginning, gpg wasn't working 
properly.  I would have played safe and put it in both, I guess.

Thanks for answering.

Anne
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