Re: KDE

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris redhat com>]

On 29 Mar 2001 nbecker@fred.net wrote:

>What exactly do I need for guiness?  I grabbed the kde-2.1.1 SRPMS.
>I grabbed qt-2.3.0 SRPM from http://www.linux-easy.com/rh-updates.
>But qt-2.3.0 requires XFree86 >= 4.0.2.  4.0.3 is available at
>rawhide, but it's "not for production use".

4.0.3 is about as production use as it is going to get at this
point. There may or may not be small fixes get in right now, but
there will not be anything earthshattering change.

>4.0.2 is available from http://www.linux-easy.com/rh-updates/,
>but it requires glide, and a newer Mesa than the one at
>http://www.linux-easy.com/rh-updates/.

I don't know for certain, but I'm assuming those are 4.0.2 RPM
packages that I built.  Either way, the current Rawhide 4.0.3
RPM's are definitely more stable in general, and have MANY more
bugfixes.

>Generally I have a lot more patience than most people when it
>comes to chasing around for packages, but this is getting
>rediculous.

Then don't upgrade until the final release is made.  Nobody is
forcing anyone to "test" the work that is being done.  If one
wants to test newer packages, especially something as huge as X,
I think it is fair that one should expect to have to upgrade
other things too.  X is dependant on many other software
packages, in turn which depend on other things as well.

To the best of my knowledge, anyone wanting to use my
XFree86 4.0.3 RPMS from rawhide will also need the following
from rawhide - Mesa 3.4-13, freetype2, flex, and possibly a few
others.

If you try to install and have dependancy failures of any kind,
please let me know so I can fix them.

Thanks,
TTYL



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