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

Wed Mar 23 22:28:22 CET 2011

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
+> Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> writes:
+>
+>>> I certainly don't have the web space and bandwidth resources for a
+>>> repository and frankly I joined Mageia as a packager precisely because I
+>>> thought Mageia would finally make confusing and conflicting third party
+>>> repos (like Mandriva has) obsolete.
+>>>
+>>>
+>>> We can host repositories for you, if Mageia is unwilling to accept them -
+>>> you could make a kde3 rpm that adds the necessary sources to use. Or, Mageia
+>>> could make an official kde3 repository that is disabled by default but can
+>>> be enabled on installer/rpmdrake. I'm not the expert at this, though :-/
+>>> that's mageia dev decisions.
+>>
+>> no a special repo hosted by mageia is not a good idea, we will not
+>> start to do repo for all that way. This need  to be external,
+>> independant repository.
+>> If you can host it this would be perfect.
+>
+> This would be a mess, like previously with Mandriva and its few
+> third-party repositories with various quality level, where the distro
+> packaging policy can't be enforced.
+> This is bad for end-users.
+>
+> Why not include TrinityDE in Mageia repos?
+> If not conflicting with KDE4, not having similar provides, and not even
+> installed by default, it seems ok to include it in the distro.
+
+we will face too many pbs simple question:
+
+we provide k3b ( kde apps )  trinity provide k3b ( kde3 apps )
+
+files are similar ( or named the same ), how users will distinguish
+the version it wants? how to deal with conflicts ?
+