Re: RedHat RPMs for KDE

Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
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> On Tuesday 30 December 2003 03:45, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
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>>Andy Goossens wrote:
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>>>On Sunday 28 December 2003 21:42, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
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>>>>Does anybody know why KDE does not support the RPMs from:
>>>>http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/
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>>>Because KDE doesn't support binary packages.
>>>http://www.kde.org/download/packagepolicy.php
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>>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.
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> 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.

What you say is, of course, correct except for the fact that RedHat appears to be a 
special case due to their actions in not providing complete KDE RPMs.  And, now that there 
is no more free RedHat RPMs available -- replaced by Fedora which are not exactly the same 
thing.

It still appears to me that the Fedora RPMs should be distributed as such and we should 
seriously consider also having the 'KDE for Red Hat Linux' RPMs available since these are 
going to be the only actual RedHat RPMs available.

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JRT


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