Re: KDE Issues under "Squeeze"

[lrhorer <lrhorer@satx.rr.com>]

Rene Engelhard wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:49:44PM -0500, lrhorer wrote:
>>         Secondly, KPackage is badly broken.  It only shows a handful
>>         of
>> applications installed or available.  Synaptic or aptitude show
>> thousands available and hundreds installed, of course.  What's more,
>> I
> 
> Then use aptitude.. ;)

        I've used it, of course.  Kpackage is much easier.  It's rare I say
that about a GUI utility vs. a CLI one, but in this case it's true.

>> no longer see how one can manage the sources in the new KDE4
>> KPackage.
> 
> Feature. Just don't :-) (Personal opinion)

        Neither of those comments are helpful.  Without KPackage, KDE isn't
much use.

>> In KDE3, one could not only easily manage the apt sources from inside
>> the app, but also RPM repositories.  Now I don't see how to manage
>> the apt sources (I can manually edit /etc/apt/sources.list, of
>> course) or how to manage rpm sources, at all.
> 
> You must not install rpms on a Debian system if you need sanitiy.
> Besides that installing rpms from a repos would not work because you
> don't have the dependencies they require (because they're either not
> there, have "wrong" package names, or simply are not recorded in the
> rpm database)

        That's just nonsense.  Many packages simply do not have Debian sources,
and I have used KPackage to successfully install many alien packages. 
In some cases, there may be a reasonable .deb subsitute, but many
packages, most notably hardware drives, simply have no substitute.  Two
of my RAID controllers, for example, only have RPM distros.  Surely you
are not suggesting a PC - Debian or otherwise - can do without its hard
drives?  They installed fine under KDE3.