Re: KDE4 and KDE3 separate

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@researchut.com>]

Ana Guerrero wrote:

> KDE4 will remain in experimental for some time... (months). Only some
> parts of kde4 will be co-installable with KDE3.  Think we are planning
> release Lenny with KDE 3.5.9.  More info about this in a mail soon.


Apart from the Oxygen icons, I don't see anything else installable on KDE3
without breaking the KDE3 installation. Trying to install okular requires
to have the KDE4 libraries and runtime packages installed.

Are you packaging KDE3 and KDE4 runtime packages and libraries separately?

IMO it would be better to make KDE4 separately installable. For now, maybe
in /opt. This would allow most users to be able to fully test/install KDE4
without the fear of breaking their boxes because they will have a backup DE
available always.

Once KDE3 is EOLed and we feel that it is good enough to move to
testing/unstable, just add a dependency of KDE4 onto KDE3 and change the
path from /opt to the standard locations.

This way users will be able to better use/test KDE4. And Debian KDE won't be
late in the game.

What do you think?

Ritesh
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