FC4 and KDE : my hopes

[Arthur Pemberton]

Matthew Miller wrote:

>On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:25:05PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
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>>Originally I intended to go on a rant about how old the FC3 available 
>>version of KDE is, but I recognize that Fedora is Gnome centric and that 
>>I am not contributing financially to the Fedora Project. As such I would 
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>The FC4 development tree has 3.4.0, which as far as I know is the very
>latest. FC3 had 3.3.0 but was shortly updated to 3.3.1. I'm really not sure
>what more you coud want.
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It would have been nice to have had the update for KDE to 3.4 sooner, 
apperently alot of kde centric apps nolonger compile (easily at least) 
against KDE 3.3.1 libs.

>>PS: It would be nice if rpm building process was a little clearer and 
>>simple, and there was a clear mechanism to contribute rpms, in that case 
>>I would be more than happy to contribute rpms to lesser popular 
>>applications that novices may want.
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>The Extras project is working on the second part. But the first part would
>be a pretty significant amount of work -- making good packages is inherently
>a difficult process, and making it more automated would be even more so.
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>There's *starting* to be better documentation, though.
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