Am Donnerstag, 27. März 2014, 20:26:38 schrieb Martin Schlander:
Torsdag den 27. marts 2014 19:41:29 skrev Raymond Wooninck:
With 4.13 on the close horizon, we got the question again if the KDE:Release:XY are really such a good idea as that this would mean that users constantly have to switch and also these repo's are not always build against all openSUSE versions.
We got the proposal to move to a single repository named KDE:Latest which holds the latest KDE release and is build against all supported openSUSE releases. This means that if a user wants to track the latest KDE releases, he/she only have to add this repository for his openSUSE release version and from that moment onward every new release is automagically delivered.
Downside is that the user no longer has a choice which KDE release. The only choice is whether to stay with the KDE release coming with the openSUSE release (and the possible maintenance updates) or to switch to the KDE:Latest repo.
On the other hand it would be getting ride of a lot of repositories and maintenance work.
I support the suggestion. A choice between latest KDE release and the official, tested, stable packages should be enough (not to mention kde unstable and kde5 devel snapshots of course).
Especially considering that kdelibs and plasma workspace are feature frozen anyway (if you disregard little things like Baloo ;-), and the ultra short release cycles for these last KDE4 releases (3-4 months).
Not only will this save time and let the KDE team focus on more important things. It will also save some significant build power and space on the OBS I should think.
I agree with everything Martin said. So basically a +1 from me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org