Re: Re: AA in KDE 2.1 potato
> > The QT that is on kde.debian.org was not compiled with Xft support, you'll
> have
> > to compile it yourself.
>
> I supppose that's still true for 2.3.0 - but why?
> Does it matter if it's compiled with or without Xft support - except for
> a small increase in size?
> I guess quite a few people running KDE on potato would also install
> XF > 4.0.2 just for the benefit of AA (and because it's not very difficult)
1 reason. It requires X4. potato does not come with X4. And as I've said
countless times before (yes this has been discussed before, on this list) I
have enough things to support as it is with what I *have* to port from
unstable to get KDE to work properly. Adding yet another variable that is
unsupported by Debian would just dump it on my shoulders or KDE's shoulders.
And then above that it would force *every* KDE potato user to install X4.
So now, we've taken a stable distribution, and not only added a window manager
that in Debian eyes is unstable but have also put a unstable X on top of it.
What do we do when weird problems show up? I tell you there will be as we've
seen already with those that have mixed potato with testing...Who's going
to support it? Not I. :) The potato packages that I will provide and
support are meant for stock potato...not potato + testing...not potato +
personal built whatever. potato. I can support that because I know it. X
is a beast and there are a *ton* of changes between X3 and X4.
If you want AA, you will have to use testing + stuff out of unstable...or
build your own packages.
Yes it's easy to install X4 on potato...just add a new line to sources.list...
but who's going to build *all* of the kde + qt pacakges for X4 and maintain
them. I'm certainly not going to install X4 on my wifes computer let alone
maintain 2 seperate set's of KDE/QT packages.
Ivan
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