[opensuse-kde] Vanilla KDE Packages
In the previous thread KDE 4.2 stable repo and KDE live CD respin the discussion evolved at one point to a community maintained vanilla version of KDE. By vanilla I mean an unmodified (openSUSE branding could be optional) packages directly from the KDE release? Is there an interest from the community for a vanilla set of KDE packages based on official KDE releases? Who would be willing to maintain such a set of packages? Would our resources be better used to help Factory? Certainly right now it is much better to use the latest from KDE, but will it be in the future? The reason I came to the openSUSE project was because of the heavily modified KDE. If the community is using resources to package and use a vanilla KDE then what makes KDE on openSUSE so special? -- Marc Benstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 03 April 2009 16:31:39 Marc Benstein wrote:
In the previous thread KDE 4.2 stable repo and KDE live CD respin the discussion evolved at one point to a community maintained vanilla version of KDE.
By vanilla I mean an unmodified (openSUSE branding could be optional) packages directly from the KDE release?
Is there an interest from the community for a vanilla set of KDE packages based on official KDE releases?
Who would be willing to maintain such a set of packages? Would our resources be better used to help Factory? Certainly right now it is much better to use the latest from KDE, but will it be in the future? The reason I came to the openSUSE project was because of the heavily modified KDE. If the community is using resources to package and use a vanilla KDE then what makes KDE on openSUSE so special?
-- Marc Benstein
I think, the resources should be better used for Factory. The most users I know, who don't use KDE:KDE4:Factory, are happy with their KDE 4.1.3. All others can use KDE:KDE4:Factory, because when they always want to have the newest KDE, they also want KDE 4.3, when it is in a usable state. I do not know it, but I think, that KDE 4.2.2 will be not too short in KDE:KDE4:Factory, because it seems to me that it does not make many sense, to adopt a KDE 4.3 Alpha to openSUSE. Best greetings Buschmann ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- openSUSE Member - de.opensuse.org Sys-Op http://en.opensuse.org/User:Buschmann23 http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_Participate http://en.opensuse.org/Geeko_wants_you!
On Friday 03 of April 2009, Marc Benstein wrote:
In the previous thread KDE 4.2 stable repo and KDE live CD respin the discussion evolved at one point to a community maintained vanilla version of KDE.
By vanilla I mean an unmodified (openSUSE branding could be optional) packages directly from the KDE release?
Is there an interest from the community for a vanilla set of KDE packages based on official KDE releases?
Who would be willing to maintain such a set of packages? Would our resources be better used to help Factory? Certainly right now it is much better to use the latest from KDE, but will it be in the future? The reason I came to the openSUSE project was because of the heavily modified KDE. If the community is using resources to package and use a vanilla KDE then what makes KDE on openSUSE so special?
Unmodified KDE packages could be useful for (relatively) easy checking if something is openSUSE-specific or not (which in turn could help with the bugzilla load). I can't think of any other good use for such packages. On the other hand, maintaining such packages should be quite simple. Updates needed about once in a month, no patches, it should generally build fine. IMHO this just depends on whether there would be somebody who would want to do this - I would find it a waste of resources if somebody did it just because it "should" be done. -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 972 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
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