Last night I finally completed the compilation and installation of kde2.1-1mdk src rpms. So far, all is working superbly. Very nice. One minor detail...when one right-clicks on the panel and gets the little menu which has one entry for "Settings". Selecting this item (with the intent of changing panel settings) does nothing still. It did nothing with the beta and does nothing now. Does anyone have an install in which the "Settings" entry in the panel menu actually works? If you do, then it would indicate a potential MINOR problem somewhere in my build. It does work OK if I get the the panel settings via Control Center. I still have a question beyond that. Coincident with building the kde2.1 src.rpms, I also upgraded to glibc2.2 (gasp!), and all is well with it too. The problem I am having is in regards to RPM 4.0. I am not impressed with Redhat's wisdom in producing a new RPM version that is, apparently, completely incompatible with the previous version. RPM 4.0 does not recognize RPM 3.0.5's RPM database so if you install 4.0, you totally lose any information regarding what RPMs are actually installed (It would have been nice if Redhat had made 4.0 capable of simply importing the 3.x database so there could be SOME continuity between versions). Is there a means to get 4.0 to recognize/accept the 3.x database so I don't get dependency problems with EVERY RPM I now try to install? XFree is installed, of course, but just about any RPM I try to install now complains about missing dependencies regarding a host of XFree libs. I use the "--nodeps" switch and all is well but this really sucks. It is only a matter of time before I use the --nodeps switch on something for which I truly do lack the appropriate installed RPMs and I wont have a clue because it will be hidden amongst the long list of "missing" dependencies which really aren't missing. Anyone? Please? -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
