On Monday 06 June 2011 23:05:52 Ben Cooksley wrote: > Hi all, > > I am requesting that a moratorium on dependency bumps for dependencies > which are "hard to build" be enacted. This would affect system wide > components which rely on root access and are heavily integrated into > the system. This would not affect things such as UPower or the like - > which aren't heavily integrated - but only heavily integrated things > such as the kernel, X and ALSA. For what modules do you want such a moratorium? Given that you mailed core-devel I assume the Plattform. There I am very sure that we do not need to expect an X12 before KDE 4.8 is released ;-) But given that you mention X I rather think you want to have a moratorium for the Workspaces. In that case please take the request to Plasma devel so that we can discuss raised requirements on a per-component base. A general "moratorium" just looks like a wonderful way to do bike-shedding. > > Over the past few months it has become increasingly hard to use a > distribution which isn't even 1 year old to build KDE trunk. Custom > patches, disabled features and compilation failures are fairly common, > and represent an extreme barrier to contribution. This would only > affect releases after KDE 4.7. Personal opinion: I think it is impossible to want to run the latest software around an old stack. The overall FOSS world is rolling release with everything depending on everything. I cannot see why you want to change that with a moratorium.
Cheers Martin
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