RFC: Fedora 8 and KDE 4

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed May 23 13:11:28 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 09:19 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Mer 23 mai 2007 01:26, Jeremy Katz a écrit :
> > Sounds like it might work.  And while /usr/kde3.5 (or whatever) is
> > somewhat breaking the FHS,
> 
> "somewhat" breaking. Yes, sure.
> Is avoiding conflicts in *devel* packages for *compat* stuff suddenly
> worth breaking conventions? Seems just digging ourselves deeper in the
> mess to me.

If it's compat stuff that we expect users to care about and with a good
sized audience (as opposed to something like compat-plib where the
audience is pretty small), yes, it may well be worth it.  I'd far rather
things just get resolved nicely upstream, though.  Don't get me wrong
there

Jeremy




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