[Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

Wed Mar 23 18:49:23 CET 2011

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 13:46, Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
+>>
+>>
+>> Quote: Robert Xu wrote on Wed, 23 March 2011 16:09
+>>
+>>> Trinity Qt4 support is experimental, you can see it in
+>>> SVN.trinitydesktop.org
+>>
+>> I'm aware of that, that's why I said we need qt3-devel re-enabled in the
+>> QT3 package.
+>> I don't want to build the current version with experimental QT4 support.
+>>
+>>> And truthfully, if you want to bring Trinity to Mageia, you should
+>>> wait for release 3.5.13 - because with an autoconf > 2.63, the build
+>>> breaks.
+>>
+>> I'm aware of the autoconf issue but I found a workaround [1] and I have
+>> managed to build a libtqtinterface RPM so far with the workaround.
+>>
+>> Are you a TrinityDE developer?
+>> I saw your name on the trinity-dev ML.
+>> If yes then maybe you could be a great help for packaging up TrinityDE on
+>> Mageia, if you feel like helping with it. :)
+>>
+>> Do you know when 3.5.13 will be released? Is the release imminent?
+>> If it's imminent then I agree it's best to wait.
+>>
+>> [1]
+>> http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/packages/libtqtinter
+>> face/libtqtinterface.spec
+>>
+>> --
+>> Mageia ML Forum Gateway: http://mageia.linuxtech.net/forum/
+>>
+> Hi,
+>
+> After looking to the source tarball which is huge ( 600 Mo ), I see some pbs:
+>
+> [dmorgan at localhost kde_trinity_3_5_11]$ ls
+> applications/  kdeaccessibility/  kdeadmin/    kdebase/
+> kde-common/  kdegames/     kde-i18n/  kdemultimedia/  kdepim/
+> kdetoys/   kdevelop/   konstruct/
+> dependencies/  kdeaddons/         kdeartwork/  kdebindings/  kdeedu/
+>  kdegraphics/  kdelibs/   kdenetwork/     kdesdk/  kdeutils/
+> kdewebdev/  libraries/
+> [dmorgan at localhost kde_trinity_3_5_11]$ ls applications/
+> abakus/                        gtk-qt-engine/     kde-guidance/
+> kile/               knights/       ksplash-engine-moodin/  rosegarden/
+> adept/                         gwenview/          kde-style-lipstik/
+> kima/               knowit/        ksquirrel/
+> smartcardauth/
+> amarok/                        k3b/               kde-style-qtcurve/
+> kio-apt/            knutclient/    ksystemlog/             smb4k/
+> basket/                        k9copy/            kdesudo/
+> kio-locate/         koffice/       ktechlab/
+> soundkonverter/
+> compizconfig-backend-kconfig/  kaffeine/          kdesvn/
+> kio-umountwrapper/  konversation/  ktorrent/               tellico/
+> desktop-effects-kde/           kaffeine-mozilla/  kde-systemsettings/
+> kmplayer/           kopete-otr/    kuickshow/
+> wlassistant/
+> digikam/                       katapult/          kdiff3/
+> kmyfirewall/        kpicosim/      kvirc/                  yakuake/
+> dolphin/                       kbarcode/          kdirstat/
+> knemo/              kpowersave/    kvkbd/
+> filelight/                     kbfx/              kdmtheme/
+> knetload/           kradio/        kwin-style-crystal/
+> filelight-l10n/                kchmviewer/        kdpkg/
+> knetstats/          krename/       piklab/
+> fusion-icon/                   kcpuload/          keep/
+> knetworkmanager/    krusader/      potracegui/
+> [dmorgan at localhost kde_trinity_3_5_11]$
+>
+> The issues we see that are blocking are :
+>
+> we can't/won't package/add  twice the same apps, one for TDE and one
+> for KDE and this issue is a blocker one.
+>
+> I would prefer to see TDE in a external repository for now. ( i.e you
+> work locally to reenable qt3, package TDE, ... and then we can start
+> to review all this and talk about integration in mageia )
+>
+> This will mess with menus too because users will have 2 times the
+> icons of K3b, and can lead to deps issues, files conflicts, how is
+> called K3b binary files ? k3b ? so it will conflict with "normal" k3b
+> and so on for the other apps.
+>
+> For Robert Xu on opensuse this is a completly != issue as repos are
+> "seperated", but that would be nice to have a 3rd "external" repo for
+> this :)
+>
+> My 2cts
+>
+
+And I hate to double post, but I do know that the %configure_kde3
+macro should point to /opt/kde3... :)
+
+-- 
+later, Robert Xu
+