[RHEL] kde 4

[Misc Things]

well, i wish i could chip in , but have no time to get simple things to work
:(
I guess i'll wait a few months - seemed that rhel 6 is (finally) is about %)
to come out... maybe by summer...

Thank you guys and happy New Year!
Andrew

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:

> On 12/29/2009 08:32 PM, Misc Things wrote:
> > thank you for your input George and Rex,
> >   i wonder what exactly was(is?) the problem with producing rpms for
> > rhel? i see there are packages for suse and even for Mac...
>
> To build kde4 for rhel5, one needs about a bazillion new dependencies,
> and it replaces the standard kde3-based desktop, so more potential
> breakage there.
>
> So, building all the deps, and the whole kde4 core stack, plus all the
> good kde4-related applications to go with it... and end up replacing
> much of the qt/kde stack shipped with rhel5.
>
> In short, the problem is that it's a *lot* of work (for questionable
> gain => a relatively small target audience).
>
> -- Rex
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