Re: kde 4.1 beta1 planned for f9 too?

[John Summerfield <debian herakles homelinux org>]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Bill Crawford <billcrawford1970 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Cherry-picking works quite well, in fact.
>
> But be warned that cherry-picking from Rawhide is COMPLETELY UNSUPPORTED and 
> may break at any moment. For example, if a central library like openssl or 
> openldap gets a soname bump, everything will get rebuilt against it, and then 
> the new KDE will drag in the new library, which will replace the old version, 
> and the removal of the old version of the library will drag in all the other 
> rebuilds. Moreover, there's no way we can test all arbitrary combinations of 
> Rawhide and F9 packages. Rawhide packages are set up to work well with other 
> Rawhide packages, not necessarily F9 ones.
>
>         Kevin Kofler

Building it yourself has better prospects. Not necessarily good 
prospects, just better.




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