Am Montag, 7. Juni 2010, 16:32:33 schrieb Martin Schlander:
I see a number of issues.
* Who would package and maintain the 44 and 45 repos?
Those repos do already exist. Dirk built KDE 4.4.4 in his home, so uploading the tarballs etc. has to be done anyway for every KDE release. Most issues of major KDE releases are already sorted out while they are in UNSTABLE. After that they would move to a KDExy repo and only need minor version updates every four weeks. I had the impression that minor updates of KDE versions and their packaging was quite smooth in the past, i.e. with KDE 4.3 and KDE 4.4.
* Who would write and maintain such a systemsettings module?
It would be a tool like ksuseinstall and written/maintained by openSUSE KDE devs if nobody else volunteers. If the information about which repo is what "update choice" for which distro version is kept in some kind of text file, this text file can also be maintained easily by the community, as it is a simple matter of editing a few lines every four weeks.
* The average user would always underestimate the risks and inconveniences and select all kinds of updates he doesn't need, which will cause more problems than they solve
Currently users exchange repo links for Qt and KDE via mailinglist or a forum which causes a lot of trouble. I do not see how this would get worse. I'd claim it gets better because with the GUI no wrong repo can be added which is one major source of trouble. On top of that the users can easily revert to the distro's KDE version which is another step to saving trouble in case things go wrong. So IMHO it only saves trouble and does not add any.
* User support would be a impossible with such a large number of different kde versions and flavours in circulation
There is no user support now, there won't be any then.
In my opinion this would be using waaaaay too many resources to please small - albeit very loud - minority - with little benefit to the distro and the project.
As I mentioned above, IMHO it would save resources in the middle and long term. I'm not sure what it's worth to count as a distro that enables the user to safer KDE updates than before. But updates would be a lot safer simply because no wrong repo can be added. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org