Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (158 mails)

[Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 03 of April 2009, Marc Benstein wrote:
> In the previous thread KDE 4.2 stable repo and KDE live CD respin the
> discussion evolved at one point to a community maintained vanilla version
> of KDE.
>
> By vanilla I mean an unmodified (openSUSE branding could be optional)
> packages directly from the KDE release?
>
> Is there an interest from the community for a vanilla set of KDE packages
> based on official KDE releases?
>
> Who would be willing to maintain such a set of packages? Would our
> resources be better used to help Factory? Certainly right now it is much
> better to use the latest from KDE, but will it be in the future? The reason
> I came to the openSUSE project was because of the heavily modified KDE. If
> the community is using resources to package and use a vanilla KDE then what
> makes KDE on openSUSE so special?

 Unmodified KDE packages could be useful for (relatively) easy checking if 
something is openSUSE-specific or not (which in turn could help with the 
bugzilla load). I can't think of any other good use for such packages.

 On the other hand, maintaining such packages should be quite simple. Updates 
needed about once in a month, no patches, it should generally build fine. 
IMHO this just depends on whether there would be somebody who would want to 
do this - I would find it a waste of resources if somebody did it just 
because it "should" be done.

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