-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/01/2011 08:31 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2011-06-01 04:25, Roger Luedecke wrote:
KDE3 Is unsupported by openSUSE, so I would expect that to be a no.
That is not true.
It is not supported by openSUSE staff, ie, SUSE/Novell, but it is supported by the community. Same as other community projects created and supports evergreen or tumbleweed.
An important distinction for both of those projects is that while they're active and hosted on d.o.o, they're not actually part of the official distribution. Community members who maintain evergreen do so because they want to. Greg KH (and others) maintain Tumbleweed because they think it's a decent idea to experiment with. Neither of these projects are an official release. I don't see where this argument is going with KDE3. openSUSE and the Open Build Service make it incredibly easy to create external repositories. If there are users interested in KDE3, by all means, keep the repository up-to-date and use it. However, the fact remains that: 1) KDE3 is unsupported by the upstream project 2) KDE3 is doesn't have anyone committed fully to keeping it maintained in openSUSE 3) Its proponents aren't claiming that it should be a popular option -- just that they want it available. These issues make a pretty clear case for why it shouldn't be part of an official release. Without committed people supporting it, any issues that arise make the entire release look bad. If the issue is to make it easy to install, then perhaps one solution might be to add the ability (if it doesn't already exist) to add external repositories and patterns early in the installation process. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SuSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3mqicACgkQLPWxlyuTD7K0VwCeK+YKiWM24yhbr9xSSCUDu51r jyoAn228oCGjdUrTV08B6+rUQQ7KYd5k =O/L8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org