f16/kde48 repo

[Colin J Thomson]

On Wednesday 25 Jan 2012 17:02:13 Neal Becker wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> > With kde-4.8.0 to be officially released any minute/day now, and to
> > forestall the deluge of questions like
> > * How do I get kde-4.8.x for f16
> > * When will kde-4.8.x be released for f16
> > 
> > and help get things tested, I threw together a (hopefully temporary)
> > backports repo,
> > http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/rdieter/kde48/
> > 
> > similar to what we did with f15/kde47
> > 
> > It contains just the minimal builds needed to get up and running with
> > kde-4.8.0 (as opposed to kde-unstable repo that has other stuff like
> > calligra).
> > 
> > Hopefully, this will lower the bar and make it easier to use, and get
> > more folks using and testing it.  Oh, and to answer question 2 above,
> > well just have to wait and see how testing goes.  Please do give feedback.

> Thanks Rex!  How is testing for 4.8.0/f16?  Haven't heard much yet. 
> Wondering whether to risk my primary laptop.

I have been using it here since last night and all is working very well. As 
usual a painless update (from 4.7.97) 

It is running on my main machine (x86_64) so it is getting heavily tested :-)

Thanks to all involved..

Colin
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