[gentoo-desktop] Re: Interest inquery: kde4-nosemantic overlay

[Duncan]

Johannes Huber posted on Sat, 06 Jul 2013 19:02:55 +0200 as excerpted:

> For the record you offer nothing for users who want to use kdepim and
> thats where the big story ends for us.

Well, obviously if they want to use kdepim, they need to have the 
dependencies (now) needed for it... which basically means semantic-
desktop.  That's a given.  But for those who steer well clear of kdepim 
in part because of its heavy deps... it'd be nice to still have the 
choice to /avoid/ those deps... without having to hack and patch ebuilds 
to do it.

Just the usual options gentooers are used to having, both in general and 
specifically with kde4, is all.

But I didn't go into this expecting to change gentoo/kde policy.  I 
thought I'd ask, just in case, but I didn't expect it to change.  Given 
that the only user response so far is (effectively) that I'm making a 
mountain out of a molehill...  Tho I'm not sure how many people in the 
potential audience actually read this list.  If I were to start a thread 
on the forums and if I had added a comment to the blog-post announcing 
the gentoo/kde policy change asking if there's interest there, since 
there /were/ a couple comments expressing disappointment...  But I'll 
probably just continue doing the patches myself, until 5/frameworks gets 
in good enough shape to migrate to it (assuming that's not too distant), 
at which point, hopefully, upstream will be modular enough that there 
won't be an issue any longer.  Else, if that turns out to be too far out 
and I can't maintain the patches, I'll simply find another desktop.  As I 
said, unlike with the early kde4 thing, that's actually a practical 
option, now.

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