[PyQt] distutils/kde questions

[David Boddie]

On Wed Dec 19 12:38:39 GMT 2007, Giacomo Lacava wrote:

> For my small apps, I used to maintain my own ad-hoc little installer
> scripts. I've finally given up on that and moved to distutils for my
> last project, KDelicious.
> However, I'm not really happy.
> 
> Since I need to place some .desktop files in specific KDE directories,
> and these directories can be different depending on whether you want
> to install the extension for everyone or just one user, I had to add a
> custom "--useronly" option so that the installer knows where to really
> put those files. This is not clean, but what other options do I have?

You could perhaps check whether the user is running the script as root
and do the appropriate thing. Would that work?

David