-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 21 May 2011, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Saturday 21 May 2011, Dirk Mueller wrote: > >> I found several myself already: > > And as I found out, kdelibs now depends on kdelibs-experimental, so I had to > remove the splitting for now: > > 890d551e6332baea19b9bcb0655fce0c kdelibs-4.6.80.tar.bz2 > > Thanks, > Dirk Oh boy. The turn of events with KDE 4.7.x is most unfortunate. I noticed an explosion of source tarballs. Dirk, are instructions available on how to re-assemble sources back to the original set? Or else, are instructions available on how to compile the bigger all-comprising packages where the separated applications and libraries are included again, like was the case all the time up to 4.7? It would be nice if there would at least be scripts available for distro packagers that allow to checkout bundled source tarballs from the repository. In the presence of such scripts, I would be able to generate old-style source tarballs and make them available for other packagers, if the KDE release team decided against making those available on the ftp site. Why am I proposing this? I am afraid that for Slackware, the bloat in KDE packages is not acceptible from a maintenance point of view. I do not speak _for_ Patrick Volkerding, but I spoke _with_ him, and since I also do a lot of the work with regard to researching and packaging KDE for Slackware, I have to say this on the matter: If there are no ways around this, then we are seriously considering the removal of KDE from the Slackware distribution and turning support over to willing third parties. This will go the way of GNOME which was abandoned by Slackware for the same reasons - we refuse to participate in a maintenance hell. Cheers (but not really), Eric - -- Eric Hameleers <al...@slackware.com> Jabber: al...@jabber.xs4all.nl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3X92EACgkQXlaqr6dcvaDoyQCgpdZ+6W2wIfbL/wRAOwkYhgtm FrAAn2VKLO1H9FUWMY1hq3k98ZrTlKAj =ZBu3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
