On Friday, April 17, 2015 12:30:37 PM Frank Steiner wrote:

So I took a look at the available repositories at https://de.opensuse.org/KDE_Repositorys and realized that there is also a SLE_12 branch at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Current/

At this moment Antonio Larossa from SUSE is working on this repository to get it fully available for SLE12.

However, the web page mentions that plasma is not part of these current releases as it is under LTS since 4.11 (whatever that means).

I think that you are mixing thisgs up here. KDE:Current offers a full KDE4 Desktop environment. Some parts of it however are under LTS (Long Term Support). e.g. kdebase4-workspace only offers some bugfixes for its 4.11 version. kdelibs4 actually is on LTS since version 4.9. In the case of kdebase4-workspace this can also be seen that it has version 4.11.x instead of 4.14.

So I wonder if this is the right repo for installing KDE including the plasma desktop for SLED 12? Or is there any other repo?

What do you mean with Plasma desktop ? Is this the new Plasma5/KDE Frameworks environment or do you mean just the KDE4 full desktop environment ? The KDE:Current repository will remain at the versions it is now and contains the latest KDE4 release. This repository will not be migrated to the upcoming Plasma5/Frameworks environment

Are there any plans for maintaining a KDE branch for 4 and/or 5 for SLE 12 where one would at least get important security updates for some years?

This depends on the SLE maintainers more than on the openSUSE KDE community team. We will include a SLE target in the repo's, but it depends if it will fully build based on what SLE has as packages. In many situations it could be that either dependencies are missing or that lower versions are offered. Building the KDE environment for SLE is not the primary target of the openSUSE KDE Community team. Regards Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org

Raymond Wooninck wrote

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and realized that there is also a SLE_12 branch at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Current/

At this moment Antonio Larossa from SUSE is working on this repository to get it fully available for SLE12.

Great to hear that!

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However, the web page mentions that plasma is not part of these current releases as it is under LTS since 4.11 (whatever that means).

I think that you are mixing thisgs up here. KDE:Current offers a full KDE4 Desktop environment. Some parts of it however are under LTS (Long Term

That's exactly what I wasn't sure about, thanks for clarifying this! I was just confused by the remark on the web page. Knowing that the KDE:Current branch is a full KDE4 is all I need!

The KDE:Current repository will remain at the versions it is now and contains the latest KDE4 release. This repository will not be migrated to the upcoming Plasma5/Frameworks environment

That's fine as a stable KDE4 is enough for us to use with SLE 12 for the next years.

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Are there any plans for maintaining a KDE branch for 4 and/or 5 for SLE 12 where one would at least get important security updates for some years?

This depends on the SLE maintainers more than on the openSUSE KDE community team. We will include a SLE target in the repo's, but it depends if it will fully build based on what SLE has as packages. In many situations it could be that either dependencies are missing or that lower versions are offered.

Building the KDE environment for SLE is not the primary target of the openSUSE KDE Community team.

Ok, I understand that. Thanks a lot for your explanations and help! cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org

Hi, Its not in my area. We plan a specific area of community contributed packages for SLE12, but I am not up to date. Ciao, Marcus On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:30:37PM +0200, Frank Steiner wrote:

Hi,

while learning that SLED 12 doesn't contain KDE anymore, I stumbled about Markus mail: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2014-11/msg00274.html (I know this is a opensuse mailing list but I don't know where else to ask :-))

So I took a look at the available repositories at https://de.opensuse.org/KDE_Repositorys and realized that there is also a SLE_12 branch at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Current/

However, the web page mentions that plasma is not part of these current releases as it is under LTS since 4.11 (whatever that means).

So I wonder if this is the right repo for installing KDE including the plasma desktop for SLED 12? Or is there any other repo? The SLE_12 branch below Distro:/Factory seems to be quite outdated.

Are there any plans for maintaining a KDE branch for 4 and/or 5 for SLE 12 where one would at least get important security updates for some years?

cu, Frank

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