[kde-linux] Not installing KDE-4.5

[Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers]

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:29:17 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net> wrote:

> > James said
> > So, I am totally exasperated and about to give up on KDE.
> 
> FWIW, I would really recommend that you try Gentoo.  They have a very 
> active (and rather large, including several community contributors for the 
> kde overlay) kde team, you do all the same building from source you do 
> with LFS, and have all the same control.  
.....

> You'd very likely find a place on the gentoo/kde team too, if you wanted, 
> giving you all the kde build tweaking and dependency validating you 
> wanted, if desired.
> 

 Please, please, James, dont do it !!

The last thing we need is another excellent expert joining a distro, no matter what distro it is !
What we need are several really experts, no afiliated to distros and not beeing paid by them. We need independant persons like James, who take the effort to build a system like the new 4.5.0 one, looking exactly for those things not working !! I had a very nice discussion with some KDE developers.( if you cannot compile it, buy it ) Either the new package can be build by somebody like James, much better by a qualified amateur ) or the package or the instructions or both are wrong ! So simple !

No doubt that a distro, with all the direct contacts to the developers will soon or later come down with the solution of the problems. But for a very long time that has not been the idea behind Linux !

Edgar
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Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers <edgaralwers at gmx.de>