-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 17. Januar 2002 11:38 schrieb Maximilian Reiss: > 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 totaly agree with you in all points. Hendrik - -- PGP ID 21F0AC0265C92061 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8SABbIfCsAmXJIGERAqH6AJ92fue2/NqLnUxFA8WFzzZsmZmnNQCfVomt Hp6guc5JHXOPxG0BjMc0NLI= =9E8J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
