well, i wish i could chip in , but have no time to get simple things to work :( I guess i'll wait a few months - seemed that rhel 6 is (finally) is about %) to come out... maybe by summer... Thank you guys and happy New Year! Andrew On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote: > On 12/29/2009 08:32 PM, Misc Things wrote: > > thank you for your input George and Rex, > > i wonder what exactly was(is?) the problem with producing rpms for > > rhel? i see there are packages for suse and even for Mac... > > To build kde4 for rhel5, one needs about a bazillion new dependencies, > and it replaces the standard kde3-based desktop, so more potential > breakage there. > > So, building all the deps, and the whole kde4 core stack, plus all the > good kde4-related applications to go with it... and end up replacing > much of the qt/kde stack shipped with rhel5. > > In short, the problem is that it's a *lot* of work (for questionable > gain => a relatively small target audience). > > -- Rex > _______________________________________________ > fedora-kde mailing list > fedora-kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20091229/be6b7e6d/attachment.html
