kdelibs 3/kdebase 4 co-installable ?

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Monday 15 October 2007 14:05:03 Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>> openSUSE-10.2 does.
> 
> Odd, KDEBase from KDE4 is not released yet, and will not be for some months. 

So what?

Don't you yourself build from SVN sources even if nothing is officially
"released" yet?

> So how can it be installed already? :)

The build service has nightly/weekly/whatever builds from SVN (and
AFAIU is also meant to be a continuing "dress rehearsal" for final
builds once a release occurs. Hmmmm.... the packages haven't been up-
dated since about 10 days now -- maybe that's because they want to
put new ones "hold" until the next (beta/dev-platform) release...?)

> Maybe you mean that the betas are co-installable, which is a completely 
> different thing.

While you may be technically correct about the "completely different
thing", I don't think it would be a good investment of time and effort
to make betas co-installable, and remove that support again for a
final release. I'm inclined to think that's meant to work for final
too.

They're also installing all binaries as /usr/bin/k* (no more like KDE3
as /opt/kde3/bin/k*), so....

I'm myself not sure if I should be happy or unhappy about the chosen
installation path (and don't know: was that an openSUSE decision? is
that now KDE4 "policy"? why -- to comply with LSB?), but in any case
that's the direction openSUSE is heading to...

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