On Wednesday 13 of January 2010, Markus wrote:
Am Dienstag 12 Januar 2010 22:18:44 schrieb Marco Röben:
What repo can I use to install the recent stable kde sc as it is released from kde?
There is no simple "latest stable KDE SC" repo and I have no idea why Novell refuses to create one.
Because Novell is a company that'd like to make some money and is willing to invest only certain amount of $$$ into some things . Now, the reality is that Novell (as such) does not even really care how many KDE repos there are or what KDE version specifically they contain, as long as certain minimal requirements are met (e.g. there's something working to put into products). The same way, I don't know where you still get the idea that Novell has a tight control of the KDE repos contain. If a group of people would want to maintain KDE:22, they can have it, for all Novell cares. So, in case you actually wanted to ask why the current KDE team refuses to create such a repository, the answer is that we have only this much manpower. For example, as far as I'm concerned, I see it a much better investment of my time to work either on STABLE, making sure KDE works well with the current openSUSE release, or on Factory, making sure KDE works well with the next openSUSE release, than on a repository that only a relatively low number of people would use only because they'd be happy they have x.y.z+1 instead of x.y.z (for example, right now, do you know what would 4.3.5 bring you compared to 4.3.4? Even I specifically don't.). However, I see no principal problem with having KDE:KDE4:LATESTUPSTREAM:Desktop or whatever you call it that'd contain latest stable KDE SC. It's basically the same like with KDE:KDE3. Either somebody does the work or not, and he who does the work decides, wishing does not make it happen. And somebody who'd actually use this repository clearly has much better motivation to work on it. So just somebody say you'd take care of the repo and you can have it. Doing stable KDE updates is not that much work (besides being somewhat time-consuming), it could leverage a lot of work from STABLE/Factory, and people who do the work now would be certainly somewhat more willing to help there by means of howtos or having look at complicated problems or whatever reasonable if they knew they wouldn't end up with yet another time-sink. So if you want and can (or are willing to learn), just raise your hand, otherwise, sorry, we currently do not have the resources to also maintain a latest stable KDE SC repo. Life sucks, it's not perfect and there is no free lunch.
You have to switch repos all the time and when you use Factory, just hope that Novell does not backport some alpha-quality from UNSTABLE to Factory. Back in the day when Novell prepared openSUSE 11.1 / SLED 11, Novell backported some Plasma features from UNSTABLE (then a 4.2 pre-release) to Factory's 4.1. The result was that KDE was unusable for a week or so.
Maybe that's the reason why it's said that all those repositories are officially unsupported and people should stick only to repos that come with the distribution if they don't want to take any risk? -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org