On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:03:41AM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > While I'm not personally a fan of KDE/QT, it seems to me that a lot of > people here are (or at least were until KDE4)
[rant] Ah, there's the rub - kde3 had poor font handling, but was straightforward to build and had some nice programs. Kde4 had much better font handling the last time I looked (4.2, I think), but ever-increasing dependencies and the obnoxious cmake[1] : For us, it's just a replacement for ./configure, but it comes with its own baggage and is generally incomprehensible for anyone used to building 'nix software. It also is *not* targetted at people who build from source using released tarballs. When I was trying to build it, I used to rely on other distros to package particular svn versions of some of the prerequisites as tarballs. It's also *over-large* (I can think of other words to describe its size, but they are offensive). [/rant] However, kde3 can't go on for ever - ISTR there was a report of someone maintaining the last version, but I've seen nothing since then. If people *want* to use current kde4, and have enough CPU and disk space to build it, *please* speak up. One of the ongoing problems with BLFS is that it already contains too many packages that no editor seems to care about. 1. I call cmake obnoxious for two reasons - the less-important is that it reinvents the wheel for us, the more important is that it appeared to enforce static libs as well as shared (can you say vulnerability?). ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
