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

Wed Mar 23 20:47:09 CET 2011

2011/3/23 Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com>:
+> Op woensdag 23 maart 2011 19:22:08 schreef nicolas vigier:
+>> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Robert Xu wrote:
+>> > And I hate to double post, but I do know that the %configure_kde3
+>> > macro should point to /opt/kde3... :)
+>>
+>> So that means that all KDE applications will be twice on the repository,
+>> one for KDE4, and one for TDE ? I think that can be confusing for users.
+>>
+>> Packaging and maintaining this is probably a huge task, and can maybe
+>> cause problems to KDE users if only done half, or incorrectly. I think
+>> it would be better to start with an external repository. And only import
+>> on the main repository once everything is working and we have someone
+>> who plans to maintain it.
+>
+> I think this is the big point here. if there isn't anyone willing to maintain
+> qt3, and someone willing to maintain TDE to the point that it doesn't conflict
+> at any point with KDE4 and KDE4 apps.
+>
+> personally i think that by the time this is well enough tested to be put in to
+> core/testing, that TDE will likely have "enough" qt4 support. So, if i was
+> someone who used that, i would build it locally for myself and test it
+> gradually that way, and not really bother with the whole submission, and
+> maintaining of every app... (which is likely alot of work; unless noone uses
+> it)
+>
+
+As explained by some guys before, we do not want to have both KDE3 and
+4 in repository. This has been a big pain to make them live together
+for some months (even if it looks "easy") and it has been a pain to
+clean repository.
+
+Now one solution is to propose a repository dedicated to it on your side.
+
+-- 
+Anne
+http://www.mageia.org
+