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On 10/06/2014 12:17 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> On 10/4/2014 1:37 PM, Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote: |
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>> The KDE release structure has evolved[1], decoupling the release cycle |
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>> of the Platform, Workspace, and Applications. This means that there is |
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>> no longer a single Software Compilation in the same way there was with |
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>> KDE 4. |
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> Interesting. |
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> Has this been discussed in detail before? What is the consensus about |
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> this in the gentoo dev world? Meaning - is it a good or bad thing? I've |
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> been thinking about giving KDE a try again, but still read enough |
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> negative things about it to give me pause (my time is very limited so I |
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> have to pick/choose what I want to spend it on)... |
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There's a fair bit of info about it floating around upstream. The |
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Frameworks split has involved a great deal of cleanup, with a focus on |
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continuous integration and pushing functionality to Qt where |
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appropriate. The move from a single monolithic kdelibs to about 60 small |
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frameworks will also drive adoption of the platform as it substantially |
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reduces dependency bloat. |
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As for Gentoo, we're just following upstream. :-) There's many more |
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ebuilds than before, but packaging is a lot simpler. |
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Given that it's early days both up and downstream, I wouldn't yet |
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recommend Plasma 5 on Gentoo for someone that's not at least a little |
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bit adventurous. I'd be interested to know what KDE negatives you've |
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experienced/heard in the past though. |
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