Re: KDE 3.0rc3 Debs???
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> I think with pay-per-minute Internet access, building from source would be
> cheaper than fetching .deb's from the 'net. But, should I use debian tools
> to build .deb's, or jsut build and install the packages to, say,
> /usr/local/* to prevent corrupting my installation?
I think the difference in size is a wash. If you are careful about what you
apt-get (most people don't need even 1/3rd of the "full" kde install), you
should be able to get by using the Debian Way.
Having said that, I compiled kde3 locally following the kde2+3 tutorial on
women.kde.org, and am enjoying the hell out of it :-) However, I plan on rm
- -fR'ing my /usr/local/kde3 as soon as .debs are available, as apt-get makes
my life so much easier. For instance, rather than hacking around to get kdm
working with kd3, I reverted to startx. Several kde2 programs just stopped
working, until I munged around with my ld.so.config, and some still don't
work (browsing documentation in kdevelop2.0 krashes instantly, I think it's
trying to embed the khtml part from kde3). Hopefully these types of issues
will be cleared up by our faithful debian devs, so that you can happily run
kde2 & 3 apps side-by-side.
To sum up: it you plan on maintaining your machine through debian via apt-*,
wait. If you simply want the bleeding-edge, compile from cvs and write a
script to upgrade you every couple days. If you are very worried about
bandwidth, wait for a couple weeks *after* the intial kde3 packages come out,
then install them, as us early-adopters will have found most of the bugs by
then, so the "release a whole new kde system every couple days"-cycle that
occurs everytime something like this goes down will have calmed down to
reasonableness, and you can skip all of it (go to the head of the class!).
HTH and HAND!
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D.A.Bishop
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