Re: RedHat RPMs for KDE

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On Tuesday 30 December 2003 03:45, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Andy Goossens wrote:
> > On Sunday 28 December 2003 21:42, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >> Does anybody know why KDE does not support the RPMs from:
> >> http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Because KDE doesn't support binary packages.
> > http://www.kde.org/download/packagepolicy.php
>
> Perhaps my choice of words did not translate well: that is not what I am
> talking about. My question is why KDE has the Fedora binaries in the RedHat
> directory but does not also have the 'KDE for Red Hat Linux' binaries
> available on the KDE sites.

i'm guessing it's because the general practice is to host the packages from 
the "most authoritative" source, which preferably would be the OS vendor 
themself (in theory ;) ... offering multiple sets of packages per OS may be 
more confusing than helpful, and probably not something that the OS vendors 
would be very happy about (for obvious support reasons). it also would mean 
KDE having to decide which packages are worth hosting, and which aren't... 
all of which takes time and is difficult (on a personal level). if Red Hat 
weren't shipping binaries, i'm sure KDE would host contrib'd packages. in 
fact, if i'm not completely mistaken, this is exactly what we have done in 
the past.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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