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Re: KDE Packagers - What's the plan/roadmap/future & timescale?



On Monday 28 January 2002 20:58, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:17:19PM +1100, Ben Burton wrote:
> > I'd absolutely advise using all of the sid KDE packages, even if you're
> > on a woody system - this is just based on watching bug reports come in
> > from people using straight woody or using some woody KDE packages with
> > some sid KDE packages.  But then again, I'm not sure how many other sid
> > packages will be dragged in by asking for sid's KDE.  This advice should
> > also be taken with a grain of salt because I haven't tested woody at all
> > myself.
>
> Does someone know from experience how well this would work? The most
> straightforward way to accomplish it?
>
> Or is it so messy that the sane thing to do - for someone who wants a
> rock-stable OS but at the same time wants to play with bleeding edge
> applications - is forget the package approach and compile?
>
> Whit

My experience has been that using the basic KDE from sid has been rock solid, 
save for two situations:  the libpng mess and a problem with KMail and K6-2 
processors that was quickly resolved.  On an otherwise woody system, it has 
installed nothing but the kde apps/libs.  Packages that are essentially 
frontends for other services (such as kdessh) do tend to pull in the related 
packages though.

bob

bob



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