qt-4.8/kde-4.10 (hopefully) for rhel6 coming soon

[Kevin Kofler]

Alf Birger Rustad wrote:
> Great! I believe the next natural target is Kontact, but we already know
> that is a bit of hard work. Michael Pyne did the tedious task of tracking
> down and fixing dependency problems, and you will find Raptor2 and Rasqal
> particularly troublesome. His work will ease the challenge of building
> up-to-date Kontact with dependencies on RH6. Once I return to office, I
> can forward it to you.
> 
> Personally I am particularly interested in getting Kontact working with
> Exchange, and have been chasing that for quite some time. The current
> Akonadi plugin for Exchange resides in playground.
> 
> Which brings me to another issue, sooner or later you will collide with
> the KDE packages already included in RHEL. AFAIK, EPEL packages are not
> supposed to touch or break Red Hat supported packages. I guess that policy
> makes updated KDE packages very difficult to provide. Personally I would
> love to have the option of updating also the KDE packages currently
> supported by Red Hat, what is your thoughts on that?

Rex's packages already replace the KDE packages provided by Red Hat, and 
kdepim is already included.

        Kevin Kofler