[Digikam-users] Digikam and the KDE

[Remco Viëtor]

> 
> Fedora for example ships DK version 1.9. If I want to use 2.x I have
> to use kde-testing packages (which are testing and possibly not that
> stable). But DK 1.9 does all I need, so why should I update? I will
> update with the new fedora 16 in two or three month.

And that's another point...
For how many other programs do you want the latest version RIGHT NOW?
Digikam 2.2.0 got announced last tuesday (so 5 days ago)... For OpenSuse 11.4, 
there was a package available for a standard install _2_days_ after the 
announcement (that package had problems with a KDE 4.7.1 system, where the 
11.4 standard version is KDE 4.6). That is very fast in my book.

For Ubuntu, Philip Johnsson provides packages within a few days, for specific 
Ubuntu versions. Again, very fast work.

If you insist about using the latest version, at least make sure you know what 
you are doing... If you start combining different repositories, NO ONE will 
guarantee that everything works, and you are on your own.

So I agree with Martin here, I guess...

Either have a bit of patience and give packagers time to create the packages 
for your version of whatever distro you use, or compile Dk yourself (and of 
course make sure everyting is backed up correctly etc. before upgrading).

Remco