Hi Raymond, I have couple of questions about those releases... 1. When switching from extra repository to applications repository, is it possible (with yast or zypper) to find all packages without install source, to see who got orphaned after repository switch? Not to leave the mix of packages from different repositories because of possible name change. 2. Could you please update the following page accordingly (or anyone else who knows exactly how it supposed to work together): https://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories If possible with some suggested priorities to get stable(ish) plasma 5 system. At the moment it is little confusing, I have a feeling that mixing all those repositories together may result in "undefined behaviour". 3. What's your impression of KMail 4.75? On Sunday 19 April 2015 20:48:57 Raymond Wooninck wrote:
Dear openSUSE KDE User,
As indicated some time ago, the initial decision was not to release the KDE Application releases as of version 15.04 for any openSUSE target except Tumbleweed. KDE Applications 15.04 would made available for Tumbleweed users together with the switch of the default KDE desktop to Plasma 5.
Based on this initial message we got some requests to make these releases also available for openSUSE 13.2 users as that they also already have the necessary KDE Frameworks and Plasma 5 releases through the update repositories.
The team discussed the topic again and I can now announce that we will start building the Frameworks based applications also for openSUSE 13.2.
What does this mean concretely ?
Newer packages that will be build against KDE Frameworks, will not have a different package name. e.g. Kate will remain Kate. If the KDE4 based version of a package will need to remain, then this package will have a 4 as suffix. In most cases if both packages are provided, then they will conflict with eachother. e.g. installing kate4 will automatically remove kate and vice versa.
The updates will be provided through two repositories
1) Official KDE Application releases will be made available through a seperate repository KDE:Applications, which is build for openSUSE 13.2 and openSUSE Factory/Tumbleweed. It is not necessary for Tumbleweed users to activate this repository as updates will come with regular Tumbleweed snapshots.
The link for this repo for openSUSE 13.2 is http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Applications/openSUSE_13.2/
2) Other KDE/Qt based packages (not part of KDE Applications) will be made available through the existing KDE:Extra repository. As soon as a package becomes Frameworks-based, the old kdelibs 4.x based one will be renamed with suffix 4 and then built for older openSUSE (< 13.2) releases. The newer package should only be activated for openSUSE 13.2 and Tumbleweed.
What should you be aware off ?
The environment where Frameworks based applications are running inside a KDE4 desktop is untested. Also upstream is only testing how KDE4 based applications are behaving inside a Plasma 5 desktop. Although we are not expecting issues, one can never be sure.
If it becomes clear that this is causing an unstable desktop for openSUSE 13.2 users, then we would revert the changes for openSUSE 13.2 and remain there with pure KDE4 applications.
Regards
openSUSE KDE community team
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