Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

[Reindl Harald]

Am 04.11.2013 22:18, schrieb Kevin Kofler:
> Alberto Ruiz wrote:
>> Indeed, this is a relief to the distro community, suddenly you don't
>> have the burden of maintaining all these apps in your system image,
>> avoiding any potential problems on upgrades.
> 
> At that point, we have rendered ourselves obsolete. Packaging the 
> applications and ensuring they work well together with each other and with 
> the core libraries is what a distro is for.

+1

>> It also removes the pressure for the user to have to upgrade his/her
>> whole system just because they want the latest version of an app.
> 
> That's why new applications should be available as updates unless there's a 
> good reason not to. (In the KDE SIG, we're quite good at providing that. But 
> our Fedora update policies need improvement to encourage that practice more. 
> It's funny how the very GNOME people who vetoed a more flexible update 
> policy now complain about this issue and use it as an excuse to sabotage our 
> whole repository system! This is a problem of GNOME's own making)

+1

written from a F19 KDE 4.11.3 Desktop (Rex Dieters kde-testing and the packages are
also on Fedora koji, i guess the release announce from KDE upstream will go out
within the next few hours)

http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.11_Release_Schedule
November 5, 2013: KDE SC 4.11.3 release

Nov 02 20:38:16 Updated: 6:kdelibs-common-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:19 Updated: 6:kdelibs-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:21 Updated: kdepimlibs-kxmlrpcclient-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:22 Updated: kdepimlibs-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:23 Updated: kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:23 Updated: kde-style-oxygen-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:24 Updated: pykde4-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:25 Updated: kde-dev-utils-kmtrace-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:25 Updated: kde-dev-utils-kmtrace-libs-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:30 Updated: kde-runtime-flags-4.11.3-1.fc19.noarch
Nov 02 20:38:30 Updated: kde-runtime-drkonqi-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:33 Updated: kde-runtime-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:34 Updated: kde-runtime-libs-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:34 Updated: kde-print-manager-libs-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:34 Updated: kde-print-manager-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:41 Updated: kde-baseapps-libs-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:42 Updated: kde-baseapps-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:43 Updated: kde-workspace-libs-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:47 Updated: kde-workspace-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:48 Updated: kdeplasma-addons-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:49 Updated: kdeplasma-addons-libs-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:49 Updated: kde-l10n-4.11.3-1.fc19.noarch
Nov 02 20:38:54 Updated: kde-l10n-German-4.11.3-1.fc19.noarch
Nov 02 20:38:56 Updated: kdegraphics-thumbnailers-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:57 Updated: kde-dev-utils-kpartloader-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64
Nov 02 20:38:57 Updated: kdesdk-kioslaves-4.11.3-1.fc19.x86_64

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