Re: Interest inquery: kde4-nosemantic overlay

Fabiano Engler posted on Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:36:08 -0300 as excerpted:

> Oh man, knowing the next release will force enable semantic desktop is
> bad news, I would surely drop KDE desktop when that became stable and I
> am forced to update.
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> Your work offers some hope though, I think the better approach for end
> users would be a plug and play overlay, but if I haven't read it here I
> would probably not even think about looking for an overlay for this and
> would just move away, which I suspect some other users will do too..
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> Thanks for the time and effort into sharing this, much appreciated.

Time to get rid of these old subthreads still marked to reply to later,=20
as events have long passed them up.

(On a personal note, work suddenly slammed me with mountains of overtime,=
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and while I normally update a couple times a week, I had all I could do=20
to update even a couple times a month for awhile.  That's why my posts=20
here unfortunately dried up so fast.  Work has slowed down to something=20
reasonable again, so now I have time to come back and tie up lose ends,=20
even if time and events /have/ rather made them anticlimatic.)

As I assume most readers have figured out by now but for the record,=20
gentoo/kde, to their credit, finally decided to add the semantic-desktop=20
USE flag back to 3.11 before it stabilized. =3D:^)

So ultimately, the only folks that had to deal with the situation were=20
those like me running in-tree unstable, or the gentoo/kde overlay with=20
its pre-release versions (which is where I am).  And people running=20
~arch, and even MORE so people running overlay pre-release versions,=20
should be prepared to deal with this sort of thing, or they should=20
reevaluate their running ~arch or the overlay in the first place.

Never-the-less, it's likely that our protests did play at least a small=20
part in bringing the semantic-desktop back, such that it was never=20
removed for stable users at all. =3D:^)

Thanks be to the gentoo/kde dev(s) that stepped up to do the work, as=20
some of us users know quite well now what sort of things that involves!=20
=3D:^)

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