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Martin Schlander wrote:
Onsdag 04 februar 2009 09:19:39 skrev Basil Chupin:
Martin Schlander wrote:
However, there's a special situation because 11.2 is likely to have KDE 4.3 - meaning 4.2 will be "skipped" by openSUSE in terms of official packages.
All goobly-dook from a users point of view.
Regular users are expected and intended to use the official packages that come with the distro.
Which are?....considering that there are always updates to a currently official release of oS.
KDE 4.2 is officially released, right? Then put it into the normal update repositories for oS 11.1.
Do you see any comparable distros doing that?
Is openSUSE a leader or a follower? Is openSUSE an innovator or a copycat?
Like any other serious major distro openSUSE is not a rolling release distro.
No? Then why did oS officially release, and claim to have officially release, KDE4.2?
Haven't you been using openSUSE long enough to know about the update policies?
No, I don't believe that I have been using oS long enough to know the "update" policy. And seeing repository entries along the lines of: Parent Directory http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/ SLE_10/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/SLE_10... 06-Feb-2009 21:04 - openSUSE_10.3/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSU... 07-Feb-2009 14:47 openSUSE_11.0/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSU... 07-Feb-2009 14:21 openSUSE_11.1+Qt45/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSU... 07-Feb-2009 22:49 openSUSE_11.1/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSU... 07-Feb-2009 18:32 openSUSE_Factory/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSU... 06-Feb-2009 15:32 then also seeing: QUOTE KDE:KDE4:Factory will switch the KDE 4.3, once it enters openSUSE:Factory. I have asked on IRC if it is possible to save the latest state of KDE 4.2 in an additional repository. Stephan Binner answered that he can copy it to KDE:KDE4:KDE42. So it looks like we can stay on KDE4.2, until we feel KDE 4.3 is stable enough. Herbert UNQUOTE followed by QUOTE I think what Stephan meant on IRC was http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/KDE42:/Desktop/openSUSE... I have no promise though... UNQUOTE + One has little choice in wondering what the heck is going on, and wondering if one had entered the world of Alice In Wonderland and attending the Mad Hatter's Tea Party.
And understand that kde.org releasing a bunch of tarballs with millions of lines of code and hundreds of different components, doesn't magically turn into stable, polished, themed, patched rpm packages for openSUSE that integrate nicely with the distro. What the heck do you think the kde-team is doing all day if it were that easy?
Buggered if I know. Do they sit around and pick their noses and roll the extractions into balls and flick them at each other? You tell me what they do. I do, however, understand that the people dealing with oS "adjust" what the "kde-team" produces and then put it out as updates to KDE for those oS users using KDE (versus GNOME). You have an email address with '@gmail.com'. There is no indication of who you are or who you work for. There are at least one cranially handicapped living organism who uses various aliases on gmail.com. I am more than suspicious of anyone using gmail or yahoo or similar to post messages. If you know what you are talking about and express comments/suggestions/information from Novell/oS/KDE then use your real name and address and not hide behind a 'proxy' address. -- "I do not instruct the uninterested; I do not help those who fail to try. If I mention one corner of a subject and the pupil does not deduce therefrom the other three, I drop him." Confucius -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org