Re: kde in extras - the devel discussion

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 08:45 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 14:26 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:

1. Extras really should not be regarded as a "second class citizen" to
Core in the first place, and

I wouldn't be sure. Though I on one hand agree that RH's work on KDE has
not been a "proof of exellence", on the other hand, I think, a couple of
overly ambitious KDE hackers in Extras could be harmful.

2. It would be maintained in Extras by the same people that brought you
the kde-redhat project, so you'd probably get better-packaged, more up
to date releases than is currently possible in Core.
C.f. my comment to 1) above.

I'd hope such a large maintainership burden would be done by a team, which
certainly would include rh's current kde maintainer.
IMO, it's only a matter of time until somebody will screw KDE and nobody
will feel responsible - Up to now we all had RH's KDE maintainer to
blame, but then we won't have him. Also, experience with community
maintained KDEs, so far, even on SuSE have not been compelling. I think
this simply is too complex and large to be coordinated by a "community
team".

3. It would close out RH from a technology

IMO, simply being in Extras != "close out RH from a technology"
1. RH != Fedora !!!
2. There are no FE CDs.
3. anaconda is meaningless rpm-wise.

4. It would close out KDE apps from Core.
True.
OK, when will Linus T. start to write his new kernel configuration GUI
in KDE? Which GUI will SuSE's new "proprietary module loader have".
When will yum have a usable Gtk/GNOME GUI?

Ralf



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