[kde-linux] Not installing KDE-4.5

[James Tyrer]

  Well, I thought that I would give it another try, but I have to wonder 
if the developers are incompetent, if they are lazy people that just 
don't care, or if there is some other lame excuse.  But, then I realized 
that the developers have built something from source, weren't they 
building TRUNK that was branched to make KDE-4.5 BRANCH?  So, what is 
the problem.  Why are there some really stupid mistakes in the build 
system for the KDE-4.5 BRANCH -- the developers couldn't have built with 
them, so what is the deal.

</rant>

So, I am trying to build KDELibs-4.5 and the CMake output has some 
interesting things in it:

-- Found Phonon: /opt/KDE-4.5/include  (found version "4.4.2", required 
is "4.3.80")

I installed KDESupport-for-4.5 so I should have the correct version!

-- Found SharedDesktopOntologies: /opt/KDE-4.4/share/ontology  (found 
version "0.5.50", required is "0.4")

This isn't in KDESupport-for-4.5 but KDE-4.4 builds against the same 
version; it appears that 4.4 doesn't check the version.

-- Could NOT find DocBook XML DTDs (v4.2)  (missing: 
DOCBOOKXML_CURRENTDTD_DIR)

Does KDE really require the older version 4.2 or is this the same type 
of problem as above since I have 4.5 installed?  But, I can look up in 
the archives of Linux From Scratch and install the old ones if 
necessary, but I have no such problem building KDE-4.4.

I realize that I am a perfectionist and I hope that people will realize 
that you have to take that into consideration when you receive criticize 
from one.  That said, it appears to me that there is no excuse for these 
stupid errors.  If you are going to produce a product (free or not) you 
need to have enough personal responsibility to do the necessary TQM 
testing to see that such mistakes do not happen.

So, I am totally exasperated and about to give up on KDE.

I realize that I have not finished the tutorial in TechBase on how to 
upgrade.  This is basically because I have not done it myself yet and I 
would not even dream of posting instructions that I have not tried 
myself.  I don't know, I might be doing better next week, but I do need 
to know if these things are going to be fixed -- and there may be more 
in the other modules -- or if my instructions need to include patches 
for the build system to make it work.

Thanks for listening and understanding my frustration.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch