KDE instructions

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Mon Mar 4 21:37:43 PST 2013


On Mar 5, 2013, at 12:01 AM, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:

> 3. Does MacPorts delete KDE users' data files when it uninstalls/re-installs?
> 
>    I suspect it does.  See the section in the Wiki on "Installation location".  In
>    ~/Library/Preferences/KDE, we have share/apps, share/config and share/kde4.

Ports need to handle this themselves. See
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#configfiles.

>    I am unclear on what variants do exactly (ie. local vs. global).  If I ask for +docs,
>    do I get it on all the dependencies?

Variants are passed to all dependencies that are installed at that time, but dependencies that are already installed are not reinstalled with new variants.

vq


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