Re: Debian potato & KDE
Vittorio De Martino <v.demart@dada.it> wrote:
>While I've being working with RedHat 7 for 8 months I'm an absolute beginner
>with Debian 2.2r2 potato which I'd like to install first on a spare PC just
>to have a go at it and then to substitute Debian for RH7 on my PC's in view
>of its well known stability and real open source nature (II'm just waiting
>for the CD's that I've bought as your site suggests).
>Being in love with the KDE desktop I wrote the following message to the KDE
>people of www.kde.org and got the following answer.
>My question is as simple as that: where can I download KDE files for Debian
>potato or what should I do step by step to have it on my PC?
See http://kde.tdyc.com/ for details of what to add to
/etc/apt/sources.list.
>-----Messaggio originale-----
>Da: Kalle Dalheimer [mailto:kalle@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se]
>Inviato: lunedì 29 gennaio 2001 15.14
>A: De Martino Vittorio (GRTN)
>Oggetto: Re: And Debian KDE?
>
>
>On Monday 29 January 2001 14:02, you wrote:
>> Both in the list of Linux distros supporting KDE2 and in the Download
>> section of your site I can't see Debian 2.2. potato, one of the most known
>> and used.
>> I simply do not understand. Why is that? What can I do?
>
>
>The Debian people did not want to make KDE packages so far. I don't know
>exactly why that is, but it might be because they receive financial
>contributions from our "competitor", the gnome project. We do not make
>binary packages ourselves (for no distribution), that's up to the
>distributors.
>
>The best thing you can do is to build and upload Debian packages yourself,
>the second best thing is to bugger the Debian people to include KDE.
This is a clueless person spreading FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt),
and you should ignore him. The KDE/Debian disagreements have been
explained frequently in the past (and had nothing to do with financial
concerns, certainly; http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008 is a fair
summary of what Debian's stance used to be). Furthermore, the licensing
concerns have now been resolved and KDE will be in the next release of
Debian. Those running the unstable distribution have it already.
(*sigh* I thought the KDE flamewars were over ...)
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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