Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (368 mails)

[Anton Aylward <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?
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