Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (237 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2009/02/13 12:53 (GMT+0100) Stephan Kulow composed:
>
>   
> > I went ahead and dropped most of kde3 from factory. The runtime needed is 
> > still there, but the desktop won't be functional anymore and as such there 
> > won't be any patterns offered from factory installs. 
> >     
>
>   
> > We should discuss if we want to keep it all in KDE:KDE3 and merge KDE:MIsc 
> > and 
> > KDE:Community in. Or we could continue the push to Contrib discussion, but 
> > first we need people to take care of KDE3.
> >     
>
> I'm not ready to drop KDE3 from any of my 7 existing Factory installs.
> Changing from KDE3 to KDE4 is like changing from Mac OS X to Windows Vista. I
> won't have time for that any time before KDE 4.3 is final.
>
> Is there some way to lock KDE3 in place while allowing zypper up or zypper
> dup to update the rest of Factory? I looked through /etc/zypp/zypp.conf, and
> nothing about locking installed rpms jumped at me. There's a reference to a
> locks file, but none exists, nor is there any indication what it might be for.
>   
I lock my programs, including kde3, in yast software manager by
searching the package or selecting a pattern and clicking all in this
list > protected - do not modify. I do this to reduce the size of zypper
dup and also to keep the 11.1 packman packages..
Regards
Dave P

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