On 09/29/2010 07:50 PM, Robert Xu wrote: > 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. >
If there is no objection Robert, I'd like to push your work directly into the book so that Trinity-3.5.12 should replace KDE-3.5.10. It is important to separate the two going forward, as KDE does not want their name dragged through the mud if Trinity doesn't go so well. I do hope that the download is separated back into groups of packages again. That 300MB+ download took literally all night to get. Perhaps anduin could assist here. Bruce? -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
