Fredag den 3. april 2009 13:16:37 skrev Daniel Mader:
I have never quite understood why we are maintaining fully outdated versions in the community distribution at all... By the time 11.2 will be out, no serious KDE user will still use 4.1, imo. It's just not as usable as the alternatives. Other distributions will have nice 4.2 packages long before openSUSE will officially provide an update. And factory is *NOT* a real alternative.
The community/beineri developed KDE Reloaded livecd with frozen 4.2.x maybe an alternative for users that don't want the "excitement" of factory. About 4.1: * 4.1 needs to be maintained for SLE anyway. * I know it's difficult for you to believe, but there are lots and lots of users (the silent majority who don't appear on irc or mailinglists) who are happily using 4.1, and for whom an official 4.2 upgrade would cause lots of big problems. * Breaking the policy once, would open a barn door for discussions about breaking policy every god damn time, one single user would like to have some upstream feature released officially. * Other relatively sane distros do the same thing (Mandriva, Kubuntu) There are also distros that do ship 4.2 in a supported way, like Fedora or Arch, if you really think that rolling release or releasing major, barely tested upgrades is a model that's desirable. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org