Philip Webb wrote:
080907 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
ignoring FHS ... are not valid solutions to this problem.
Why ? Who is demanding FHS compliance & for what reasons ?
Gentoo is not like other distros & sometimes needs to find its own way.
Given the well-known problems with KDE 4.0 & (still) 4.1 ,
I'ld like to be able to have the option of multiple versions available.
I really do appreciate the hard volunteer work the KDE team donates
& have nothing but thanks to them all, but shouldn't your priority be
to get KDE 4.1 into 'testing', so that users can actually try it out ?
There's also 3.5.10 , which has been released, but isn't in Gentoo yet.
As a lowly user, I would like to keep KDE 3.5.* for quite a while and
will most likely not switch until at least 4.3 or better is out. Even
that mostly depends on how many "issues" are still left out there.
I realize that I'm not behind the scenes doing the work to keep both
maintained but they are going to both be maintained anyway and leaving
it like it is has worked fine so far. Unless there is some requirement
upstream, I would prefer it be like it is so that we can still choose.
I will most likely maintain both KDE 3 and KDE 4 until things get sorted
out and I make sure everything works.
Nothing worse than upgrading, realizing that the new version isn't ready
for my needs yet and having to recompile KDE all over again. Having
both would be really nice.
My $0.02 worth.
Dale
:-)
