Le Jeudi 17 Janvier 2002 11:38, Maximilian Reiss a écrit : > Ok, > > having both (kde2 and kde3) in debian the both time might not be the best > idea. > Disadvantages: > - quite some trouble regarding where the files should go .-) > - would waste lots of diskspace on the mirrors. > > - Is it really needed? KDE3 supplies improved version of all kde core > apps, and is normally stable on release date. > > So heres my suggestion: > KDE3 is kept out of debian as long as it is really released. (KDE3 release, > probably a little bit later to catch some hot cvs upstream fixes .-) ). > The KDE3 moves into debian, and replaces KDE2, at least all the apps, that > are allready ported to KDE3. > For the other apps the kde2 kdelibs and kdebase-libs (probably some more) > will stay in debian, als long as there are KDE2 apps not ported to KDE3. > Same for the -dev packages, since it should still be possible to compile a > KDE2 app and run it. > > This would cut the discussion above and would prevent a lot of trouble. > Also we would get a hug from the mirror maintainers. > > Until the release of KDE calc could supply beta (KDE3 RC1) debs from an > external apt source. (p.d.o). > Here it could be considerable to use the --prefix=/opt/kde3 (optional > package) as long as it stays external and then change the prefix to /usr if > it gets close to release time, or from an apt source as replacement > allready for the installed kde2, conflicting. >
I totally agree with you. Unofficial/unstable versions of KDE can be imho considered to be add-ons, and should go into /opt
