On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 18:16, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]
+1 > > 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. oh, you mean KDE Trinity? I've gotten in contact with Timothy Pearson, he's releasing 3.5.12 soon. When that happens, I can put a stable 3.5.12 into the wiki. (But right now, I'm much to busy. and 3.5.12 isn't ready yet) > > 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?). ew, cmake. I wish that KDE never used it. -- later, Robert Xu -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
