kdelibs 3/kdebase 4 co-installable ?

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 06:34:53PM +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2007-10-15, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> > Yes, I expect them to, if that's what we decide.
> 
> > If it's just too much hassle renaming all applications/files that clash, we=
> > should simply ask people and distributions to install to a different prefix.
> 
> Hi!
> It would be really nice if you would stop playing hard.
> 
> shipping in a different is not a valid option for anything considered
> stable. At least not in debian. I think ubuntu has it the same way.
> Fedora has also said that a different prefix isn't going to be
> used.
> 
> We need a fix for this, and it seems like several kde devs also agree on
> this.

Ack, Ubuntu isn't going to change its packaging policy for an
upstream, but not having them be co-installable would be a notable
loss.

Jonathan