On Tuesday, May 05, 2015 12:10:14 AM Alessandro Russo wrote:
Or someone who wants KDE4 forever could do what someone did for KDE3... Create a repo and mantain it.
Regards
Luiz
Can you give us some hints, howtos, faqs?
Well, we still have a repository (KDE:Current) which contains the latest versions available for KDE4 based packages. This repositoy is currently building for openSUSE 13.1 and SLE12. My proposal would be that if there are people ready to take the KDE4 maintenance task, then please let us know and I will copy the whole KDE:Current project to a new project named KDE:KDE4 and grant full access to this project to those new maintainers. This would be a very good starting point, given that actually everything is inside that project. This comes however with some restrictions: 1) Packages can not be included in Tumbleweed without additional efforts. These efforts are to create the necessary co-instabbility of KDE4 based packages. e.g. kate from this repo, should be reworked to install as kate4 (including the underlying structure). 2) No upstream support. Upstream for most components have changed to Frameworks and Plasma5. The major components that are still supported are kdelibs, workspace and the kdepim suite. However this will also be dropped in the near future as that the KDEPIM suite will be Framework based with the KDE Applications release in August and the Long Term Support for kdelibs and workspace would end around the same time. In other words, Tumbleweed will move forward and soon will have Plasma 5 (based on the 5.3 release) as the new default desktop. It will replace KDE4 based packages and existing desktops will be upgraded. Those users that do not agree with this, have a couple of choices: 1) Get yourself organized and start maintaining a new repo according to the above. 2) Create locks for all KDE based packages to prevent changes or switch back to openSUSE 13.2. 3) Accept the decision taken and move forward. But in any case stop complaining on this mailing list and expect others to do the work. This is your chance to step up and be the hero that saves all those that can not do without KDE4. Regards Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org