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Re: [suse-kde] Missing rpm2 in KDE-3.4s SuSE-8.2 folder?
- From: Andreas Philipp <andreas.philipp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:05:00 -0500
- Message-id: <200503211505.00936.andreas.philipp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Daniel,
El Lun 21 Mar 2005 14:23, Daniel Eckl escribió:
> You just can make that by yourself if you have enough time and knowledge,
> but SuSE cannot efford to make this incredible work for every release they
> ever made and then give you the DVD iso of all these versions for free,
> too. If they would do that, then SuSE would not be availiable for free
> download, but would cost 400 Euros....
You see, that is exactly what I am doing. I acquired and installed a Linux
distro two years ago, and configured and tweaked everything I needed so it
might work as I want it to work. I update the packages I regularly use or
those for which security issues have been publiziced, but I see no pressing
requirement to update the whole distribution on those stable machines.
In my previous post I never implied that SuSE was in any obligation to provide
updated packages for this new KDE release. I even mentioned that 8.2 is
nearing its end of support deadline. But if your reasoning is what prevents
SuSE to provide a full set of KDE 3.4 packages for 8.2, SuSE should make that
clear to its users. Users just want to know what's up. I had no problems
compiling KDE from source, and those dependencies that showed up could be
resolved. What I wouldn't like to do is to upgrade part of my KDE system,
while the base packages remain in the previous version, because SuSE felt it
wasn't worth the effort to provide those packages, as well. Simply be clear
about the issue, that is what I was asking for.
> I don't want to offend you, I just want to state my private opinion on this
> subject.
You didn't offend me, and I never understood your contribution as anything
other than your private opinion.
> Best,
> Daniel
Regards,
--
Andreas Philipp
Noema Ltda.
Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia
http://www.noemasol.com
El Lun 21 Mar 2005 14:23, Daniel Eckl escribió:
> You just can make that by yourself if you have enough time and knowledge,
> but SuSE cannot efford to make this incredible work for every release they
> ever made and then give you the DVD iso of all these versions for free,
> too. If they would do that, then SuSE would not be availiable for free
> download, but would cost 400 Euros....
You see, that is exactly what I am doing. I acquired and installed a Linux
distro two years ago, and configured and tweaked everything I needed so it
might work as I want it to work. I update the packages I regularly use or
those for which security issues have been publiziced, but I see no pressing
requirement to update the whole distribution on those stable machines.
In my previous post I never implied that SuSE was in any obligation to provide
updated packages for this new KDE release. I even mentioned that 8.2 is
nearing its end of support deadline. But if your reasoning is what prevents
SuSE to provide a full set of KDE 3.4 packages for 8.2, SuSE should make that
clear to its users. Users just want to know what's up. I had no problems
compiling KDE from source, and those dependencies that showed up could be
resolved. What I wouldn't like to do is to upgrade part of my KDE system,
while the base packages remain in the previous version, because SuSE felt it
wasn't worth the effort to provide those packages, as well. Simply be clear
about the issue, that is what I was asking for.
> I don't want to offend you, I just want to state my private opinion on this
> subject.
You didn't offend me, and I never understood your contribution as anything
other than your private opinion.
> Best,
> Daniel
Regards,
--
Andreas Philipp
Noema Ltda.
Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia
http://www.noemasol.com
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