todd rme said the following on 01/08/2012 05:42 AM:
The problem is that KDE is sitting on a huge software stack, other parts of which also have openSUSE-specific patches and configurations.
To the degree that is true, to the degree that even to edit the source and recompile any part of KDE or change the scripts, you are sitting on the stack of text mode tools, compilers and more, all of which have support in different areas, this is how KDE and Linux is different from Windows. There are arguments for an against diversification, for an against single sourcing. Even with Linux we have some critical paths that are only mitigated by having the sources widely duplicated. But the degree that Todd's case is true can best be shown by hard evidence. Sven - and others - how many of the bugs that get reported to bugs.kde.org are nothing to do with KDE, are bugs in MAKE, GCC, X or the kernel? How many are actually runtime/installation configuration issues? Because I wonder how much of Todd's 'stack' is 'runtime' as opposed to the 'stack' that's needed to run Linux as a development platform? Reality often bits and many plausible conjectures fall in the face of evidence. Sven, what's the hard evidence here? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org