Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Christoph Thiel <cthiel@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 06:53:30PM +0100, Carlos Goncalves wrote:
> On Friday 29 August 2008 16:55:07 Michael Loeffler wrote:
> > b) We may add again both KDEs to the DVD
>
> Between a) and b) I vote b). Main reasons are:
>
> - people fear loosing some of their vital data during automatic (if 
> available) 
> KDE3->KDE4 configs upgrade proccess (eg: PIM data (emails, contacts, todos, 
> etc)). Even if they don't fear it's still risky doing that yet, as they could 
> then blame openSUSE for that (stupid I know but it will happens!)
> - KDE4 just might be not ready for them (eg: missing features)
> - annoying bugs which won't be fixed before <KDE4.2 (eg: systray background 
> not 
> transparent, kpowersave not yet ported to KDE4 leading to some bugs)
> - users might be interested in testing KDE4 but still have KDE3 around 
> (offline)
>
> > Cons:
> > - space limitations on DVD may prevent this option
> > - maintenance and integration of 2 KDE desktops needed which the internal
> > KDE team hardly can accomplish
> > - we're backing a desktop which anyway won't receive much attention from
> > upstream anymore
> > - confusion - which KDE should I choose
>
> I do understand these cons, and if openSUSE decides not going for b) than
>
> c) Release an official or non-official KDE3 CD
> - official : same updates policy as openSUSE 11.0
> - non-official: community supported, updates only via buildservice (if any)
>
> Pros:
> - openSUSE provides KDE3
> - less "trash" (packages) installed by default

Do you have a list of packages that you think could be left out? ;) I'm
definitely interested in suggestions here!


Best,
Christoph

> - save users and mirrors internet bandwidth (CD < DVD, right?!)
> - more free space on DVD for additional packages
> Cons:
> - more storage space (to be decided if should be hosted on Novell servers -> 
> download.o.o -> openSUSE mirrors)
> - if officially supported, will require maintenance
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Carlos Goncalves
>
>
>
>
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