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[Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>]

Am Wed, 24 Aug 2011 02:37:38 +0200
schrieb Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz>: 

> Imho kde4 spells should be renamed to kde spells and of course installed
> into /. The question is if we wants to support kde3 spells. Are they
> supported by upstream? If not, we should deprecate / remove them from
> grimoire.

A different approach: Drop KDE3 spells and include Trinity 
(http://www.trinitydesktop.org/) instead, which is the maintained KDE3. It 
also conveniently installs into /opt/trinity.

Generally, for such monolithic stuff like KDE, I am rather fond of the old 
strategy to put it into a separate prefix, even for the current version. 
Putting things into /usr just likes to mess up during migration phase to new 
releases ... and we know: You have to run KDE-old and KDE-new side-by-side 
for some time until KDE-new really can replace KDE-old. If ever. Outside apps 
using KDE libs are sweet sugar icing on top of the mess... but if they're 
build with the proper prefix, no conflict shall occur.

That being said, I'm off KDE personally for some time now ... and I dunno if 
I'll bring my folks up to KDE4 in any time. They got LXDE with some trinity 
apps (namely KMail and Kaddressbook, which _perhaps_ has full functionality 
in KDE 4.7 again).


Alrighty then,

Thomas.


PS: Yeah, I don't know how long Trinity will survive, but they managed to do 
releases...
PPS: Instead of /opt/kdeX, we could use /usr/bloatware/kdeX;-)

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