On Wednesday 31 August 2011 11:59:50 Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On Wednesday 31 August 2011 10:26:38 Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Once the build fails, you can chroot into the buildroot, change options, run configure and make manually in order to not rebuild everything from scratch.
Oh in that case I would need even more steps: first, clone the package on my local machine, then chroot etc.
So you do packaging without having the packages checked out locally and test-building them before checkin?
In that case my home computer would be doing building all the time. KDE:KDE3 gets fully built good if 2 or 3 times a month.
Well, in that case probably there's no good advice anyone could give you that would help.
Whenever I do packaging workshops, I always teach people how to verify their build locally before committing it to the buildservice.
Anything else is usually (except for a few very special packages) just a recipe to cause yourself a lot of pain.
Why? Spending all my computer's power on building is good?
And what desktop to use then?
A maintained one? There are lots to choose from which are actively maintained to keep building / working with current toolchains / infrastructure.
Which one? exactly?
Choose one from http://en.opensuse.org/Product_highlights#Latest_Free_Desktops for example. The list is from 11.4 but it applies to FACTORY as well.
That page lists only KDE4, Gnome2, Gnome3 and Xfce. Gnome2 will not be available in 12.1 In KDE4 they still have broken file manager, and in Xfce there is no normal file manager at all.
From the outside, it looks interesting to watch you trying to ride a dead horse, but IMVHO those efforts are in vain and could be spent more useful by improving one of the existing maintained alternatives so that it gets the features you are missing and that were in KDE3.
First, I am not a programmer to improve something. Second, it is unreasonable to improve something for a desktop which creators do not respect the work of other programmers and easily throw it away. Third, If someone would like to improve KDE4 or Gnome 3 he would have to revert most of the changes which were made intentionally by the developers. I am sure such improvements will not be accepted. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org