On Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:23:55 Will Stephenson wrote:
- It seems that some packages were disabled for Factory. Namely, kdemultimedia3 and anything related to Beagle. Please tell me the actual reason or the disabling. I can add to KDE:KDE3 repository any libraries needed for the build. For example, I can restore kdemultimedi3. Or are there any other reasons for the disabling? Beagle in particular is essential for finding topics in KDE help system.
Beagle is gone from 11.3 as already stated. Use Recoll, Strigi or Tracker. The integration points with khelpcenter are only scripts so it should not be too much work.
In that case it is too difficult for me. Would be nice if someone could take a look at those scripts.
- I am planning to add some soft dependencies to some basic KDE packages to improve user's experience. For example, it would be good in my view if kdebase3-workplace recommended kde3-knemo and desktoptext-config. Also some plugins may be recommended. Please tell me if this is against OpenSUSE packaging policy.
The openSUSE way would be to define these extra packages in patterns in the KDE:KDE3 project and provide one click install links to these. Adding them to kdebase3-workspace is excessive - this should only contain 'upstream' recommendations - and will force users who don't want these packages but don't know how to prevent Recommends from being installed to have them.
The patterns in Yast are complete mess. You can find many KDE4 apps under KDE3 patterns and vice versa, KDE3 packages under KDE4 patterns. Also I do not know where they are defined, my bug-reports were closed as won'tfix
- I have long-range plans to include Qt3-based versions of Yast2, VirtualBox and Firefox. If somebody has experience in compiling Firefox for Qt3, any help welcome.
I would avoid reanimating more zombies than you can handle. With the security risks I mentioned before, and the integration issues you will face with newer versions of openSUSE (HAL being removed, NetworkManager changes, k3b+wodim/cdrecord, sound systems changes, removed sax2 requires a randr tool in the user session, and so on) you are going to have your work cut out to keep up anyway.
NM is not really necessary as we have Yast. At least I do not use it.
A realistic and harmonious y to make your work widely available is to produce an openSUSE respin image as we are doing for KDE 4.5.1, using either OBS or SUSE Studio. See KDE:Medias/kde-reloaded in the OBS for an example.
Sorry I do not know how to do it.
- Besides this one can consider including KDE:KDE3 repository in the list of community repositories along with the Education repo etc so a user could be able to install the full version of KDE3 from the community repo.
No comment - talk to opensuse-community.org about this, they maintain this list.
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