-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2009-04-13 at 19:15 -0400, Richard wrote: ...
That is also my understanding of the situation. I also think your solution is valid...it doesn't ruin what you already have/use and it allows upgrading to 4.x+ if you are ready to do so.
As an aside, but related, when I updated a customer from 3.5.9 to 3.5.10, some of the KDE3 apps were upgraded to KDE4 versions even though they had the same name. The biggest example was Konqueror which lost so many functions that I reinstalled the fersion in 3.5.9 and ignored the dependency errors encounterd because of other similar 'upgrades'. So far, no side-effects on that one reinstall, but I am sure there are other programs I left 'upgraded' because I didn't deem it worth the problems.
That's the problem David reported on the Bugzilla. Indeed, if that is happening, it is impossible to install kde3 from the OBS: not now, not ever again. It is not that kde3 is not "fixed", I can live with that; it is that is being broken.
My fear is that your proposed solution might 'upgrade' existing 3.5.9 versions to the hybridized versions of apps with the same name, eg, librariess or applets (or whatever they're called now) that still remain shared (under development) in KDE4.x. David Rankin found that using stuff from the OBS to upgrade his KDE3 apps caused an error because apparantly changes made by 4.x development are replacing versions in the 3.x OBS distro channel. Aside from that, I generally concur with your observations.
Yes, I agree with that. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknj4ZwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UjIwCfSTjMDmCmrYrIgLXQcw68f5j7 znIAn2WNd4LxfsDTW7Gji5DWYrw3Crf7 =QGzv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org