I'm curious as to the advantages of running a backported version to haveing a mixed system with KDE at Sid level. Is there any technical reason not to use a mixed system?
Chris On Tuesday 13 September 2005 13:17, Patrick Dreker wrote: > Am Dienstag, 13. September 2005 12.23 schrieb Adeodato Simó: > > * Patrick Dreker [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:05:48 +0200]: > > Oh, it's nice to have people backport latest sid KDE to the previous > > stable release. :) > > > > In order to avoid duplicating work, I want to point you to the work of > > Tapio Kautto (see [1]) as part of the formerly-known-as-kalyxo project. > > I recommend that, if you have some time you'd be willing to spend on > > working on backports (that'd rock), you contact him and offer your > > help. > > > > [1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kalyxo-devel&m=112617950500691&w=2 > > Thanks for the hint. Even though the same server, which now hosts my KDE > 3.4.2 backport, is the primary FTP server for ekhis.org (the project > formerly known as kalyxo), this somehow went past me. %-) > > I will contact Tapio... As I need the backports for internal purposes > anyways, I could very well coordinate my work with ekhis.org to get "clean" > backports with some support even... > > > > Please note, that these KDE packages require updated dbus packages, > > > which are also provided in the repository. Due to changes in naming > > > there may be dependency conflicts with these packages and packages > > > depending on dbus which are not part of this repository. Any hints, > > > reports or help is appreciated. > > > > Well, all of this is handled correctly in Tapio's backports, so > > perhaps it's wiser for people to wait that these are officially > > announced. YMMV. > > OK, This really seems to be wiser, except, if you really, really wants to > upgrade now, and don't mind having to sort it all out manually later. I > will leave the packages up for reference and for those wanting to test > them. > > Patrick -- C. Hurschler
