On Friday 10 June 2005 07:21 pm, Rob Bochan wrote: > I've been running Sid with KDE 3.4 from the alioth.debian.org repository > for several weeks now. Can anyone tell me what will/should happen once KDE > 3.4 makes its way into Sid? Will I have to uninstall and then reinstall the > proper KDE packages from the proper Debian repository or will it stay the > same and just run the normal update/upgrade cycle? I'm also curious as to > how the change to Xorg will be. I've never made the transition between > _major_ packages like XFree86 and Xorg before, so I have no idea what to > expect. > > -- > > ...Rob > Return address is obfuscated. > You can reach me via robslaptop (at) gmail dot com
I don't know about the X.org transition (it will probably be a magical journey, since there will be a complete switch to the new modular, autotooled X.org, as I understand it), but the KDE transition should be basically seamless. The versions that go into unstable will probably have a revision bump and they will install over the Alioth packages just like a normal upgrade. Of course, with all of the activity going into Etch/Unstable right now, its hard to tell exactly what any of the major transitions will bring. There may be a huge mess due to some of the low level gcc/g++ changes, I don't know. Perhaps a developer knows more? -- Ryan Schultz -> floating point exception: divide by cucumber
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