Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (158 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fredag den 3. april 2009 13:16:37 skrev Daniel Mader:
> I have never quite understood why we are maintaining fully outdated
> versions in the community distribution at all... By the time 11.2 will be
> out, no serious KDE user will still use 4.1, imo. It's just not as usable
> as the alternatives. Other distributions will have nice 4.2 packages long
> before openSUSE will officially provide an update. And factory is *NOT* a
> real alternative.

The community/beineri developed KDE Reloaded livecd with frozen 4.2.x maybe an 
alternative for users that don't want the "excitement" of factory.

About 4.1:
* 4.1 needs to be maintained for SLE anyway. 
* I know it's difficult for you to believe, but there are lots and lots of 
users (the silent majority who don't appear on irc or mailinglists) who are 
happily using 4.1, and for whom an official 4.2 upgrade would cause lots of 
big problems.
* Breaking the policy once, would open a barn door for discussions about 
breaking policy every god damn time, one single user would like to have some 
upstream feature released officially.
* Other relatively sane distros do the same thing (Mandriva, Kubuntu)

There are also distros that do ship 4.2 in a supported way, like Fedora or 
Arch, if you really think that rolling release or releasing major, barely 
tested upgrades is a model that's desirable.
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