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

Wed Mar 23 22:30:25 CET 2011

On Mar 23, 2011, at 17:28, Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
+
+> 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 )
+
+Uh, no, k3b-trinity or k3b-kde3
+
+>
+> files are similar ( or named the same ), how users will distinguish
+
+No.. That's the purpose of /opt/kde3
+
+> the version it wants? how to deal with conflicts ?
+
+What conflicts? We're installing in a seperate prefix. Also, the RPM
+requires, provides, conflicts, etc have long been fixed, no?
+