On Sep 30, 2010, at 1:37, DJ Lucas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > > The 3.5.12 prerelease ( which really isn't a prerelease anymore ._. ) is already up on different mirrors via launchpad. So, no need for that big tarball, finally. :) More details to come. (but anduin can still help :P) -- later, Robert Xu -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
