Hi, long time i was very disappointed about KDE4. Unstable, less functionality and blah and blah and all the well known stuff which is said against KDE4.
In the meanwhile (at least with the KDE-4.5.x series), i changed my mind and i now use it as my primary desktop and i do not really miss KDE3. So I would like to help out if i can to get KDE4 into the book. This would open the door for others like K3B and Digikam - they now rely on KDE4 and are no longer maintained in their KDE3-versions. One issue with KDE4 (at least for me) is kdesupport. There are many packages duplicated into that "package" which are prerequisites to KDE. But it is not included in the release cycle which means there is no kdesupport-4.5.1.tar.bz2 for example. This has to be created be using svn checkout by ourself. There is qca, oxygene-icons, akonadi included but this packages are also available as standalones. How to figure out what should be used? I did it as best guess. While the dependecy-chain of pysip, qzion, eet, qedje is optional, it isnt so dramatic to me that i didnt succeed in compiling qedje... I attached a script i use to (re)build KDE. There are rudimentary comments about which package is needed by which. The referenced script named blfs.sh is a tool which simply compiles and installes the package whos name is passed to it as a parameter (when name is starting which %, the name is a group of packages). Its my "package manager" ;-) If you want me to, i can post the referenced scripts too. So maybe the attachment can be used to get an idea what will crawl out when you start lifting the KDE4 stone... Note that it will not build a 100%- complete KDE, NetworkManager is missing. -- Thomas
build-kde-4.5.1.sh
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