[kde-packager] Re: [kde-packager] Plasma 5 RC

[John Layt]

On 4 July 2014 10:13, Vishesh Handa <me at vhanda.in> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:

>> I renamed baloo's tar to baloo5 because it contains some libraries
>> which most distros will want to co-install so I'd expect baloo
>> (kdelibs4) and baloo (kf5) to exist in distro archives together, for
>> which they need different names.  kfilemetadata is similar.  milou is
>> probably a mistake, that won't co-exist.
>
> A similar case exists for kactivites. It existed in kde4 as well and the
> current framework has the same name.
>
> I would really like the tarballs to have the same name. Also, baloo4 and 5
> are not really co-installable. They both ship executables with the same
> name.

Co-installabilty of Plasma 4 and Plasma 5 with minimal work required
by the distros is a must if we want to avoid the mess of KDE4.
Already openSUSE has announced that you can't have both installed at
once, which will force people to choose one or other, when what we
really want is for them to be able to try Plasma 5 out while still
being able to switch back to 4 if there are things that break their
workflow.

John.